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doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm doing awesome, Jesse. Yeah, excited for having a matchup
under our belt and getting going in the early fantasy season.
So just excited and love watching the games. Hey you doing,
my friend?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm doing great. Yeah, I've been watching a lot
of hockey and you're right. By the time people are
listening to this, you'll probably either have one or two
matchups in the books or going into the books come Sunday.
And yeah, it's been pretty cool so far. My teams
is a knockout. Wood are doing okay early season, better
than I expected. But I have that moment, Victor, where
I realized I thought I was prepared for certain positions,
but I woke up one day and suddenly realized I
have no left wings on any of my teams. You're
a planner man. But you've got so many rosters, and
that's going to be part of what we talk about today.
Don't you ever find that out that wait a minute,
I don't remember this roster not being ready for this.
Speaker 2: Oh definitely, yeah, you're right. Generally that wouldn't happen if
I had a few, but I have so many that
actually I was noticing this on one of my teams
that usually one of the hardest things to find is
relevant defencemen in the league, and I think I over
corrected for that because I was trying to fill some
of my forward spots and I just didn't have enough.
But I had seven defencemen on the bench, and I
was like, oh no, this is a problem. And I
looked at the waiver wire and there was dregs of scraps, leftovers,
nothing really interesting. So I was like, oh, shoot, so
I'll probably have to make a trade. Not that I
have not that those depth defencemen are great, but they're
above replacement levels, so I probably could work out of trade.
But that definitely happens where I'm thinking just in the
terms of Okay, this is a scarcity, and then I
maybe do a little bit too much of an over correction.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir. If you run into those situations, you're like,
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and participate in that Victor. Today is going to be
about our Shares. It's our annual Shares episode. So right
after this we shall get into the Shares episode. We
do it every year about this line. Because I think
it's so easy for people to come on in every
type of fantasy. I'm not calling out any fantasy hockey
podcast or any podcaster at all, except that people will
come on and say, yeah, I was way into this
and he's really blown up look at me. And I
always think to myself, if you're really into him, is
he on your teams? And it doesn't mean that just
because you're into a guy, he has to be on
your teams. But let's face it, the first person, the
highest person on a player, tends to get a player,
especially in a redraft. Sometimes you can tell who you're
really into who don't. You don't just think you're into
but who you're higher than the market on by an
exercise like this, never before like today's episode, because Victor's
got a whopper here in a minute. I'm really looking
forward to it. It's in all time shares record. I
will start by saying Victor has twenty two rosters, six
best balls, and various other things. I'll let you get
into that, and I've got I've got seven rosters and
well one is redraft and six for Dynasty. But the
first half of the episode is going to be all
about Victor's high share guys, and then we'll do my
high share guys after the break. But Victor, I don't know, man,
do you want to talk anything about the general situation
of your leagues? And then we got to get into
the topic dujure of this episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, Yeah. So the twenty two is I actually
scaled back. Some people might remember previous iterations where I
had twenty five plus and a lot of those were
Dynasty Keeper redrafts. But I've scaled it down. Six of
those are best balls. And once you get your ranks
and your sense of how where everyone's at and what
you want to do for the season, I find it
really easy and fun just to load up on as
many of those best balls as possible. So I actually
really enjoyed that part, and so that's why I got six.
I was just doing as many as I could towards
the end of the season. But if you take those away,
it's only down to sixteen, and three of those are redraft,
so thirteen are the rest. And so one of them
is a tidy tournament that we did that we've done
before this year. We included Mason and Brandon and Shane,
and that was a patron cast, so you can go
back and listen to that if you're a patron. And
then one of them is the new Guillotine League that
we set up. And if you haven't heard of this,
it's a really fun league where you have matchups each
week and the worst team that week that matchup gets
eliminated and all their players go to free agency. So
that's a super fun league. That's a new one. The
rest are eleven dynasties that I've had for a long time.
So a lot of these you'll hear players I've invested
in for a long time. Some of them are a
little bit new, and as you alluded to, Jesse, the
biggest share I've ever seen is Sam Furenzel, Samrenzell. I
have twelve shares of Sam Brenzel, which is just bonkers.
I don't even know how that happened. I know how
it happened. I guess I'll talk about it. Part of
it is that I certainly believe in him. He's someone
who is He came on strong the last couple of years.
He was drafted out of high school, which is always
weird to evaluate those players, and he went to the
USHL and looked good and it really came on strong
the last couple of seasons at the University of Minnesota,
and then made his debut last season. It looked really
good in those nine games. So a lot of us
were pretty high on him. As you mentioned, Jesse, I
think it's pretty clear that it's not just being high
on him, but the opportunity cost for me was there.
I was getting him really late in drafts, and I
was trying to get at one or two defenders a
little bit earlier and then fading my third or fourth
defender and being happy with getting Renzel a little bit
later because I figured I'm going to get him at
good value. He's going to probably run the power play
and certainly play a lot of minutes, which he has
been doing. So I love that and that's been happening.
I was checking in on how he's been doing, and
as we're recording that, they just had was an eight
goal game, and initially he had a point and then
they took it away. So that's extremely frustrating. I was
pulling my hair out, which I don't have much of,
and I was like, how are there eight goals here?
And Sam Bunzel got zero points. That's extremely frustrating and
not going to continue because he was out there for
several of them, so that means his ipp was really low.
His total time on ice is actually the highest by anyone,
a little bit higher than Ethan del Mastro, and he's
getting more power play time than Lipshoonoff, which all of
those things are things that we expected that he'd get
a ton of time. And I think the points will come,
The points will come. He's getting tons of total time
on ice. He's getting all the opportunity you could hope for.
I didn't think many people expect him to play twenty
one minutes a night and get almost three minutes on
the power play. It really depends on how good the
team is. We saw in recent games that the Blackhawks
actually can score goals, and so if that's the case
and he's running the power play, he's going to get
out there and get He's gonna get point. So I'm
really excited about him. I think it's still early. Can
you buy high on him? I think is the question
that might be challenging because people are excited about him,
but the fact that only has one point in five
games and zero points in that inight game eight point game,
a cold game, you might actually be able to buy
on him. And I think if someone is frustrated with him,
oh I got him. I thought I was excited about him,
but now I'm not. Maybe they're ready to move on
too early in the season. So you might see if
you can buy on Samunzell. I certainly would if I could.
I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet. So
that's where I'm at with Ronzelle. Jesse. Did you get
any Salmonzell in your life or did I just take
it off from everyone else?
Speaker 3: I think I looked every single league we're in together. Victor,
you have Sam Frenzel, so obviously you were into him.
This is your guy, But I get how this happens.
We've talked about this on the Shar's episode, and with
some notable exceptions like one that's coming up pretty soon
for you. A lot of times the guys you get
high shares of are the guys who are later in
the draft. But they're the flyer that you prefer and
not the Philadelphia flyer, the draft flyer that you prefer,
the dart you prefer to throw. Because and you played
a bunch of best balls this year, I wonder I
should go back and look how many of these are
your best balls that you got Renzell in, because why
not if you think this is the guy who's going
to break through, why not take a late pick on him.
I'm guessing just because you managed to pick twelve shares
in twenty two leagues of Sam Brenzel doesn't mean you
were drafted him in the third round or something. It
makes sense to me. I cheer you on in your
Sam Frenzel up. It's gonna be difficult, it really like
if Chicago can break out, and they've been decent so
far this year, then you know, the rising tide could
lift some boats like Renzel, I would.
Speaker 2: Say for sure, and I believe only one or two
of these are in Dynasty. So these are all ones
that I drafted this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of them I believe is actually our common league
that you set up years ago, and that one I
picked him up at the very end of the last
season because I saw him getting games and I was
excited about him. So that's one where some prior knowledge
definitely held. But most of these were just seeing the
opportunity cost there and seeing that he was probably going
to get a lot of minutes and pouncing on it.
Speaker 3: Life is good. Who's your next guy, Victor. This is
some obscure guy, right that nobody's ever heard of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a very scure guy named Cale mccarr, and
no one's ever heard of him. He's probably going to
be pretty good in a couple of years. He's obviously amazing.
And I have six shares of Kle mccarr, the most
of these guys that I have the rest of our
six shares, and these are all Dynasty. I love mccarr.
I drafted him years ago in redraft. He was going
a bit early for my taste, and a lot of
drafts he was going like the fourth or fifth pick.
Part of it is I really didn't have any redraft
picks at that point, and so it didn't really come up.
But I've invested in him for years. I traded for
him in a couple of years when people weren't confident
that he was going to maintain that point production that
he was getting early on, and he's done nothing but
basically exceed that expectation ever since, so it's worked out
pretty well. I will say that I'm a little concerned
just all about the thinning out of the talent in Colorado.
They're starting to look like Tampa after their cups where
a lot of their depths went away, but they still
have and Tampa still has elite talent at the top
their top power play guys. Everyone on that top power
play is still an elite fantasy asset, and I think
mccar is going to be fine for that reason. But
if someone does worry about the thinning out of the
roster and the fact that maybe Colorado isn't as good
as they used to be, maybe you could buy not
quite as high on ACR. That's probably a challenging thing
to do. Jesse. I don't imagine you would sell mcar
for slightly lesson market value considering the personnel changes in Colorado,
because I know I would not.
Speaker 3: No, my car is dang near. There's always an argument
for mccar being the most valuable player in certain forms
of dynasty, especially ones where there's a premium on defenseman points,
the ones where the defenseman position is more shallow than
other positions. Certainly there's a couple of superstars that would
tend to go ahead of him and draft, but there's
an argue for him as a darn near top dynasty
asset in most leagues. Yeah, and this one, I believe me.
I knew Victor when before mccarr was the thing, and
mccarr was a thing for Victor the whole time. So
the fact that he has come out to this level
is not terribly surprising. It's a major payoff for you.
Would I sell him for slightly less than market value? No,
definitely not, because I think he will. He is. James
Harden once said something in basketball said, I'm not a
system player, I am a system I think the same
is true for cal mccarr.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think mccar breaks the system. Actually, that's what
he's done. He's a cheek code I love that. Yeah awesome,
and I was an early and often adopter of him.
There's another guy that I had a similar affinity for,
and that's Thomas Harley. He's the next guy on my list.
Speaker 3: I love me so Harley.
Speaker 2: I have to say, I was thinking that they would
let him specialize a little bit more and be the
power play quarterback early returns so far though, that's not
really the case. They're showing heyskin In as more than
double the power play tom on ice as Harley. But
despite that, Harley has more than double the amount of
points that Heyskinin does. And actually Heyskinin is behind lung
Fist and Slyndel for points. That'll probably change soon, but
it is interesting. We all know that Heyskinin is an amazing
real life defender and he's such an asset to that team.
But I do think ultimately Harley will emerge as the
better offensive defender. I think he already is, but that
they'll start using him that way and then he'll keep
up the scoring. I think that the team will start
to use them more effectively at their strengths. But as
long as Heyskinin is there and getting more power play
tim on Ice, Harley's value is going to be a
bit depressed, and so that is something to think about.
He's not currently a good value as your number one
D because he's just not getting the minutes right. The
total time when ice is a little bit less than
you would have liked. He's still playing twenty three thirty three,
but you would like him to have more of that
power play time, have more of that top role. So
that's something to keep in mind. He's an awesome third
D and probably a pretty good second D depending on
the size of your league. So that's something to keep
in mind. Most of these that I have him in
are in Dynasty. Half of them are in Dynasty, the
other half. I was able to get him a little
bit later, and that's because I think people are recognizing
this is one of those situations where you have two
defensemen competing for a role, and to me, that's always
a sign of I don't want to be the I
don't want to take the first guy on that team.
If there's ever a team where there's a question about
who the power play quarterback is, I don't want to
be the first. I don't want to take the first
guy off that team, I'd rather the second guy just
for opportunity costs, So I'll take whichever one is left,
and the fact that it cost me less to get him,
I'll be excited about that, and I'll probably use someone
a little bit more secure with my other pick. That's
how I approach it. Is that something that you ever
think about, Jesse?
Speaker 3: Sure? Sure, yeah, you definitely want The idea of drafting
in tears is definitely something that people have embraced for
a very long time. But I applaud what you're doing.
To have Harley in a lot of dynasty leagues is
huge because the Dallas Stars have a bit of a
situation coming upon them. They have actually the third highest
cap number in the league right now. And listen to this.
I mean, they got Miko Ranton and of course signed
to a boat, So is Rupert Hint, so is White Johnson,
so is Miro hayskin in and Essalyndell ain't far behind.
Matt Duchane signed for a fair bit of money and
guess what after this season, Jason Robertson and Thomas Harley
are both ourfas. Oh I even forgot Jake Ottinger over
eight million a year for a goalie for many years
to come. And not only that, but you might be like,
there are fays that's fine, Oh, we'll get them on
a bridge contract. Oh no, oh no. Harley and Robertson
are both through their bridge contracts, and now with the
way things are going, you might be getting close to
I gotta think Thomas Harley's going to make at least
Luke cu'es money, right, it's got to be the case.
I don't know. In other words, if Dallas can afford him,
and if he goes somewhere else, he's going to be
the unquestioned power play one quarterback. In my mind, he's
going to unless he pulls a no adoption and shows
up where Hudson is. Yeah. So I think Harley already
performs at an exceptional level, and even as he's tucked
behind Hayskin in some of the time, but in terms
of talent finds a way, Harley is going to be
a power play quarterback one. I think by this time
next year. And by the way, I don'tant we're doing
yours first and then we're gonna do mine after the break.
But I'll bring up Thomas Harley is actually one of
my high shear guys that I was gonna go over.
I've got him in three of my seven leagues, so
you and I are on the same boat. This is
the only guy that crosses over both of our lists
and makes sense. We're in on what three four leagues together,
but there's plenty of other leagues where we are not
in the same one. So yeah, he is, he is.
He's pretty darn good. Thomas Harley. He's gonna, yeah, he's
gonna my block him for a while. He's gonna might
get hurt, and next year I just don't think they're
gonna be on the same team.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. He's certainly not worth half as
much as me or heyskin in right now he's being
paid less than half, so it's a good observation that
he might have to go somewhere else to Dallas tends
to figure things out as a no tax state. Maybe
they can work some magic, but you're right, that's gonna
be real challenge. And yeah, we do co manage a
team too, and that is not a team that have
Thomas Hartley, only yeah, have different shares of him, So
that's one. Yeah, And actually the cap nuance is something
that is really relevant with the next guy, and that's
Brent Clark, and I definitely invested early and often with Clark.
He's someone I've been really excited about. It's been really
frustrating to see Dowdy continue to eat his value and
just continue to perform at a high level into his
elderly years as a hockey player. And it's great for him,
but you know, him continuing to get power play time
on ice has been exceedingly frustrating. But what I have
noticed early on in this season is Bran Clark is
finally getting the edge by fifteen seconds or so on average,
and so that's a really good sign. We'll see if
it continues. Right now, the points are pretty similar, but
the opportunity leaves on the power play is hinting slightly
towards Clark, So hopefully we'll see I think we've seen
in LA in general lean towards the younger players. We're
seeing Quintin Buyfield get more of a role, We're seeing
a fairy air some of the younger talent get a
little bit more of an opportunity. With Copaitar announcing his
retiring and it seems like they're willing to embrace a
little bit more of that youth movement, which was something
that really absolutely blew up in their face in the
playoffs when they refuse to play some of their young players.
So that's good to see. We'll see if it continues.
Right now, at even strength, Drew Dowt he's getting five
more minutes of a total time on ice than Clark,
so that's going to be interesting to see. We'll see
if they continue to shift things around for a long time.
We raved about the Kings having one of the best
prospect pipelines in the year in the league, and I
feel like they completely mismanaged that they had so many
high end prospects that they couldn't possibly have accommodated. But
instead of trading some for some current assets or future assets,
maybe some draft picks, they just waited for all of
them to mature at the same time, with the exception
of brock Favor, which was also a huge mess that
they traded him away, but getting Kevin Fiala isn't the
worst thing. But they certainly didn't all hit and some
of them struggle, like Alex Turcott, and so it's been
really interesting to see and now, I'm not sure if
they even have enough high end talent for when Brent
Clark is the young question power play quarterback and running it,
will they actually have enough talent for him to score
fifty plus points on a regular basis. I think that's
very much in question. So that's a question I'm gonna
ask you, Jesse, do you think that when Clark is
at his peak that he can actually get to that
point because right now he's had his highest point pace
was last season thirty five point pace without very much
opportunity and just over sixteen minutes time on ice. Right
now he's getting a little bit more than that, but
it's pretty similar, and we know what the talent pool
there is in LA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly the first part of last season he
got to play with Dowdy Hurt, right, so he got
more opportunity early on and then later on, So that
explains part of why he was hitting career highs. He's
not that old of a guy. He's only twenty two,
and in a way, you could say that the Kings
have eased him into the major role of the NHL.
Defenseman can take a little bit longer to mature, and
they only got two more years left of that Drew
Dowdy contract. You have to think that old Drew is
nearing the climax and might have some more of those
Jamie ben one million years or something after that in him.
But nobody's He can't sign Drew Dowdy for a fortune
after this contract runs out, although he's still extremely productive.
I think that Brank Clark will jump into his own
I think we'll get a contract this offseason that supports that. Certainly,
not a no tax state is California, so that won't
be that won't be a consideration in the amount that
they're going to have to pay him to keep him around.
And when the Copaitar and Dowdy contracts go away, the
Kings are going to have some money to throw around.
And other than that, they only have Kevin Fialla an
under eight million per is the highest contract they have
on the books going forward, so they're going to have
money to be able to send around to bring in
some talent and some guys around. I agree, though they've
really blown the ability to prop up the system with
a lot of the talent that we saw that they
had a lot of. It's skating up in Winnipeg and
helping them win President's trophies. Now, will they have enough
scoring to push it, Going back to your original, will
they have enough to push him into a fifty plus defender? Yes,
I think absolutely Clark can get up to that level.
But yeah, it might take a couple of years. The
guys that they brought in are not scoring threats. Safe
to say that, all the defensemen they imported this past offseason,
it's really Drew Dowdy that he would have to pass
to get there, and there's a lot of routes to that.
In the long term, I think you're wise to continue
to invest in and put your trust in Brank Clark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, while you were talking about taxes, I was wondering,
is California the highest? And turns out the answer is
for income taxes, yes, we're number one.
Speaker 3: Congratulations Victor. You're number one.
Speaker 2: By quite a lot actually, But in terms of overall
tax burden, people might not be interested in this. It's
actually we're only number eight. So it depends on how
you're asking that question. But it's certainly true that for
contracts and things, it is actually a bit more challenging.
The nice thing about California is that people tend to
want to stay because the lifestyle is good, so maybe
that'll weigh into those negotiations and in traction. But yeah,
certainly a big year for Clark as he is going
to be negotiating for a substantial raise coming off as
ELC there and really the only major defenseman who isn't
signed past this season, so it's going to be a
big shift for them. Let's move on to my last
sixth share, and that's Tyler Tofoley. I believe all of
these are redraft picks. Actually I don't know. I might
have him actually in one dynasty. Yeah, I think it's
the one that we'ren't together. The opportunity cost for Tofoley
was just there for me. He's someone who is getting
top six time. He's playing with some of the young
studs there in San Jose, and usually you could get
him very much into the teams of rounds, assuming like
an eighteen round draft and picking him in around fourteen
fifteen sixteen was just ripe for the picking. I think
that the Foley's floor is pretty high, considering he's a
pretty productive player. He's been in the fifties. He did
have a couple of seasons where he spiked a little
bit higher, but he's been around a sixty point pace player,
which is a pretty solid floor. And I think if
the team and the young players, the young studs on
this team take a step like like it seems like
they're ready to, we could see some offensive explosions from them,
especially since they don't really care so much about or
they're They are seeming to care a little bit about
being competitive in these games, but they're not trying to
necessarily win so hard, so they're letting their offensive players
play a little bit more. So I think he has
a bit of a ceiling above that too. He's been
fifty seven fifty seven to fifty five point pace the
last few seasons, including this one, and I could easily
see him if things go really well, pushing up to
sixty five or so. And so that's a pretty decent
upside with the floor being pretty much where he's been.
So I like that. Not a lot of high risk.
Also not the most exciting player. But anyways, that's my
last six share. Guy. I have six five players who
I have five shares of, and I'll just mention them
briefly and see if you have any takes on them. Jesse,
but Maddy Nye is one of them. The other one
is Dylan Gunther, Zach Hyman, Ryan Nudgrit Hopkins, and Lucas Doshtaal,
And I'll start with Doshtahal. And I think everyone who
listens to the show knows that I love do Staal
and most of those are in I have three. I
think they're half two or three in Dynasty. But I
also I have been loving him in redraft leagues, and
that's because of some strategy things. I mentioned that because
Anaheim plays a lot of those off night games, you
can often get very good, very good schedules from him.
And I love the fact that you can have him
as one of your goalies. And whether you want to
have another or two, or whether you want to stream
a goalie, it's just a lot easier to fit in
other goalies, especially if you're fading goalies or doing zerog
or whatever the case may be. It's a lot easier
to fit in another goalie when you have one playing
so many off nights. Not to mention the fact that
the Ducks should be more competitive they have been so far,
and he is a really good goalie by all expected
goals numbers and everything. He's been one of the best goalies.
Last year he had twelve goals save above expected and
very few really bad starts. That's the other thing is
he tends not to blow up your numbers. Even if
the Ducks aren't doing super well, they tend to let
in a lot of shots, and he doesn't tend to
let in more than he should. And so that really
bad start rate is fifteen percent or less, which is
really good. Even some of the best goalies will blow
you up now and again. So love that for Dosh
Stall and I'm really excited about him. Ryan Nuden Hopkins,
we'd know the deal with Nuge. He gets moved all
around the lineup. He's not someone that I want to
reach for, but as someone who you can often get
a little bit later, and we know that he tends
to find his way on that top power play. We
know he can score a lot of power play points.
We know Edmonton should have an excellent power play and
even from the bottom six, he tends to score double
digit plus power play points, even if his actual point
pace is a little bit muted. You tend to be
able to rely on that production as someone you can
get a bit later. So I like Nuds for that.
I wouldn't reach for him, but and I wouldn't trade
for him in terms of expecting like a seventy plus
point pace. He could easily get there. All it takes
is the power play to run hot. They tend to
put him up with Dr McDavid towards the end of
the game if they need to push forward. He's always
a guy that they rely on it and move up
the lineup, And so I like him for that. Zach
Hyman another oiler, might as well just cover all the
oilers together. Obviously we've seen really big ups and downs
from Hymen. Last season was a big down, and he's
injured to start the season, and is that's part of
why I ended up with him in so many places,
because towards the end of my drafts, I tend to
look at who's injured, who's some value that I can
mine here later on, And because he was going to
miss some time, I felt like I got really good
value on Hymen. And yeah, he may have another down
season just like he did last season, but the reality
is that he will most likely be on that top
power play. He will most likely get time with McDavid
and dry Sidle, and we know what those guys can
do together, and we know that he can cook. Last season,
he was a little bit unlucky in terms of his
power play production just twelve the other seasons he's been
in in the last two before that, he had round
Doubler more than double. So that's a really good sign
that he could get back to that level and you
could get him for really late. So that's you might
in terms of strategy, look at if someone in your
league has him and they're struggling right now, and you're
doing okay in your matchups and you're early on in
this season, maybe throw them an offer, give him a
lifeline of someone who's producing now, and then take your
Zach Hyman and you could be really happy with that
later on. Dylan Gunther. People also know I've been a
huge fan of Dylan Gunther for a long time. I've
really wanted him in more leagues. Actually, he should have
been one of my eight or ten share guys, but
I got sniped on him in several leagues, and so
I was very frustrated at that. But I have him
in a few dynasties and I think that he's he
had seventy points last season, twenty seven goals. I think
this guy is going to be a perennial thirty their
forty goal scorer in this league. He's someone who has
that talent and as the Utah Mammoth get better and better,
I think he's just going to consistently score a ton
of points. And they have so much talent there, but
he's going to be a focal point of the offense
no matter what, no matter who's there. He's so good.
He has such a good shot. I don't think you
can go wrong, and in most formats, goal scoring is
one of the hardest things to find, right, So get
your goal scorer, and this is probably the last season
you'll get him at a bit of a value, because
once he starts scoring thirty five plus goals, you're not
going to get him. So I would definitely reach for
him if you could. And Nice is the last one.
I think people were a little down on Toronto in general.
It was really strange because usually I don't get any
Toronto players because everyone's just so excited to get them. Matthews.
It depends on just if you're picking early enough, right.
But for Nice, I think people were looking at Okay,
Marner's gone. Obviously they're going to spread out some of
the talent. Obviously the guys you want and order is
probably Matthews, Nielander, and then Tavar's probably and then Nis
or some maybe those two are close. But I was
getting a lot of value on nices and I think
that Matthews is still going to score a lot of goals.
He's going to be there, he's going to be on
that top power play. He's going to be able to produce.
And the other thing about Knys that I really like
is he has a solid Perferle floor. Right, He's someone
who bangs, he throws the body around. He's he's not
going to give you zeros generally, and so that's nice
because obviously you're not going to produce all the time,
but to be able to offer something. I'm looking at
the game log here so far and he's getting even
on nights, he doesn't score a round, three shots, a
couple hits and maybe a block or two. That's solid, right,
that's what you like to see. Plus then he's getting
three assist games goal and assist on other games. So
that's what you have to expect from Nyes. And I
think people are underrating him, thinking he's just a complimentary piece,
and I think he has been. But I think Matthew
Nys has the upside to be a bit more of
a focal point here. Like he's obviously not going to
overshadow Matthews, but I think as Tavares sundowns a little bit,
he's going to take that next most prominent spot after Kneelander.
I don't think he's better than Kneelunder, but it's going
to allow them to really if they want to load
up that top line, those three are going to be
incredible for a long time, and if they need to,
what they'll keep doing is probably putting Neelander down on
that second line because they need someone to drive that line.
In Matthews or Knives. We'll probably get to stick with Matthews,
which is obviously where you want. So I'm really excited
about my guys, Jesse. Do you think I'm over excited
about these five share guys or is it maybe right
in the right range.
Speaker 3: I think all these guys are very defensible, very good
players to have on your rosters, and none of them
are zeros. Even now, you can't even say, wow, one
of these guys. That makes sense if you have as
a prospect, but it's going to be a while and
all these guys should be producing for you now, And
I don't know what an argument would be against any
of them. A nice Hey, I agree? What is going
on with the Toronto Players draft? In my redraft? In
my industry redraft league this year? I got Morgan Riley
after pick one to ten. That doesn't seem right. It
seems like even if you're down on him, and I
know I made a comment about him on ours on
or Mustard, but jeez, yeah, Victor, what do you think
of this Toronto hate that we're getting?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so funny. I think just a lack of
absolute insane love kind of translates as hate. Right It's
not exactly, but I saw the same thing with Rightley.
I got him. I'm surprised he didn't show up on
my list. He was probably in the next tier. But
I was getting him all sorts of places because I
was looking around after the first six, seven, eight rounds
or so and looking for some guys that maybe could
run a power play, and he was sitting there, still available,
and I get Yeah, he had a bad season, last year,
and I get that he is not then necessarily the
best guy to run a power Play. I know that
there's been a lot so much written about them, but
the reality is that he certainly can, and he's done
it before, He's been good at it. I think that
the system didn't necessarily favor him before, and I think
they're locking him and I think people were way underrating him,
especially with Marner Gahan, the fact that he would be
on the point, Like, looking around, who else is it
going to be there? Are they really going to run
five forwards? I doubt it with the personnel they had,
So it just seemed very logical that Riley was going
to get another chance and he was going to be
able to make good on it. And so far it
looks so good. Right, so we'll see. He doesn't have
any power Play points yet as we're recording this, but
he does he has have point per game, which is
pretty nice that I won't continue, but I'm certain he
can get back to that fifty fifty to fifty five
point level, which is a pretty good steal where you're
getting him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, Victor. I think man, I think the Leafs
needs some more exposure, maybe we should have a segment
on the show called how does this impact the Leafs
and the Leafs fantasy players specifically, because I just feel
bad for these guys toiling in obscurity. But seriously, nice,
that's an exciting player. Why what's the problem here? I'm
fully in favor. I remember you were a Dylan gunther
Stan back in that draft, so I'm not surprised at
all to see that you continued to roster a lot
of him in your teams. And I'm in and nuche
both very good depth players to have. All right, Victor,
any final comments to make about your draft shares before
we take a break, come back and sort through my messes.
Speaker 2: No, I think I just want to reader it. As
you said, this is a good exercise, I think for
everyone to think about with themselves. Do you say you
like these players, but did you like them enough? Did
you get sniped on them? Or do you maybe just
not believe as much as other people do. I think
it's a good reality check. Right, So, there are guys
that I really went into this draft wanting that I
didn't necessarily get, and it partially means that I didn't
like them as much as other people right, So maybe
I have to just think about that. Okay, So maybe
I should like them more if I really want them,
or should I try and go trade for those guys,
or maybe I'm too high on some of these and
try to trade them away. So it just it gives
you something more to think about.
Speaker 3: Definitely be right back to talk more. Shares too excellently.
Speaker 2: Are serious injury.
Speaker 3: Victor. I am playing in seven fantasy hockey leagues this year.
Lest people think that I'm a complete scrub and lazy,
let's just point out that I'm in something like thirty
leagues across five different sports, so I've got a lot
going on. But I definitely am. Only one of them
is a redraft so we kind of have to look
when we look at shares at what was a redraft
pick this year? Sure, but more to the point, which
of these guys have been on my teams for years?
These aren't necessarily guys that I've recently drafted, but they're
guys that I have maintained or I've traded for over
the years. The first kind of going through this, Oh,
and I should say one other things, I shouldn't really
be plugging other people's content necessarily but let me tell you,
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really can make your life easier if you do it.
So anyway, it was easy for me to do my
prep this year because the actually have one page where
you can call up all of your players in which
leagues you have them in, and so that was something
that I was able to pull up to get this
information pretty quickly. Dalliboard Divorski is my first guy. Of course,
Saint Louis wing prospect coming up. There's going to be
a theme to some of the players that come up
in this and that theme will be bash. I'm not
sure the Dalliboard divorce Ki. I thought maybe he would
be a better example of that than he currently is.
There's definitely offensive talent there, but the scouting reports that
we've heard suggest that maybe the shooting and the hitting
are not quite to the level that I would hope
for Nonetheless, he's the Saint Louis Blue. He will find
a way to smack people around. By the time he
comes up to the pros, it's not there yet. He's
in the AHL. So this is a guy I took
in prospect drafts, and I think he was slipping at
the time in multiple different leagues. So it's gonna be
a while. That's all right. I can wait on him.
I'm hoping that he shows some offensive prowess once he
finally does make it up with the pros, because he's
a smart player and he's gonna be able to provide
some offensive usefulness to me, even if the bash is
still in question. To me, Victor is dalladboard Divorski a
player who you have interest in? Or is the reason
I have so many shares of him because you never
took him in any of our leagues.
Speaker 2: I was thinking, it's very strange people think of me
as the prospect guy. I didn't mention a single prospect
in my shares. That's very strange. I think it's probably
a little bit of Yeah, maybe I didn't steal him
enough from you. It's someone that I'm skeptic just because
people often would talk about Divorski as someone who was
a good two way guy, and I don't think that's accurate.
He's not good defensively. He's not good two way. He's
a skilled offensive guy, but struggles with the other aspects
of his game, and that might just limit his upside.
But he undeniably has a lot of offensive talent, so
I think he's going to get those opportunities. We'll just
have to see how He's one of these guys that
his offense is going to have to be so good
that they forgive his defensive misgivings, and I'm not sure
if that's the case. I think he's right on that
borderline of that might happen. So we'll see. Definitely a
guy that you want. You really are going to have
to see how he does in the professional ranks, which
he has had a very weird trajectory. If I've talked
about this before, he is someone who didn't necessarily follow
a very standard trajectory. He is Slovakian, but he started
playing mostly in Sweden and then had some SHL time
during his draft plus one season, and then went to
the OHL, and then after the OHL went to the
AHL and then now got a couple of NHL games,
but he's back in the AHL. So just bopped all
around and had a pretty good season last season in
the AHL in terms of points, but his play driving numbers.
In fact, I'm looking at his fantasy Ageay Life player
card right now from his AHL time. His play driving
and transition game was just awful in the AHL. That
says a lot about him. We'll see. He's in the
kind of wait and see for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's barely twenty, so there's still plenty of
time for him to be sure. He turned twenty over
the summer, so yeah, we'll see. Look I'm putting these
and by the way, these are in random order. The
guys I have up a here, maybe I should have
put in the excitement to less excitement. I'm going to
take Divorceki and say he's middle of my prospect system
most of the places I have him. Next, a guy
who got a ton of attention last spring, and I'm
proud to have all my teams. That's Sam Bennett. I
remember there was a time not that many years ago
when Sam Benet it was like fringe to be on
people's rosters. When he went from being that a huge
draft pick for the Flames once upon a time to
really washing out a little bit for the Flames and
moving back to Florida resuscitating his career. But I love
the bash here. Obviously Bennett is not the huge score,
but I think I acquired him in three different leagues
at a lower by the way, all the guys that
I'm going to cover now until I specify otherwise, I've
gotten three of my seven leagues. So Bennett is a
guy you can definitely benefit from. His peripheral floor will
always boost you up, and he's going to have a
more and more prominent place for the two time Stanley
Cup champions with Alexander Barkoff out and Matthew Kachuck coming
back who knows when, and there seems to be plenty
of additional offensive talent that the offense isn't going to
completely collapse even without those two stars. But Bennett is
going to be counted on a very central role. Victor
got any Sam Bennett shares and what he think of
him in this coming year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do have a couple of shares of Bennett.
In fact, he was one of the main driving forces
in my thirty three team dynasty or a thirty two
team dynasty league that I won with Mason in the
ones that the Kevinstage runs in the prospect of Pros,
and that's a really deep league. So that's how we
ended up with him, and we'd saved a lot of
our salary towards the end and ended up drafting him.
And in that format, with his Perferle contributions, he's pretty valuable,
but also more of a depth guy. And that's part
of the reason I don't have him anywhere else because
he's he's got pretty good Perferle coverage, but he never
really scores that much. Some people think of him as
this Tom Wilson guy who has high scoring and perferal coverage,
but he's really not. He's had several seasons not even
at fifty point paces, and even in the seasons he's
gone over. I think if you ask people what do
you think the highest point pace stam Bennett's ever had,
they probably will say somewhere this sixty five plus point range,
But it was fifty seven. That's not so good in
terms of points, so you're really relying on that Perpheral coverage.
I think this season is different, right Barkoff out and
could chuck out. He's gonna get more. He is getting
more opportunity between him and Lindell. The team is certainly
not the same without those two key contributors, though, So
you're getting more opportunity, but with less talent around you.
So it's a really mixed bag. I ended up targeting
Lindell a little bit more, so I have a few
more shares of him as I do of Bennett. But
I think he's a great He's a great, solid guy.
I just what I find is that people reached for
Bennett earlier than I'm ready to take him in general.
So that's why I don't end up with him. But
if he was there a little bit later, I certainly
would have taken him.
Speaker 3: That's just it is. Sam Bennett is I would agree,
overvalued right now in fantasy, but he was not overvalued
at the level that I got it. Matt. Probably what
that means is I had to be trying to sell
these shares now while they're at peak value. But I'm
not going into the mode just now. But yeah, his
Sam Bennett not displeased. Four hundred shots plus blacks plus
hits last year. If you tally him all up, and
that was in a couple shy of a full lady two.
Another big basher who tends to fall a little bit
in the estimation in the ranks, and I've scooped up
over the years in different places as Boon Jenner of
the Columbus Blue Jackets, And yeah, I love having Boon Jenner.
He's he can miss some time, but he is another
guy who's going to have that peripheral floor that is
going to be able to boost him up. He has
had decent scoring over the years. Obviously last year he
missed most of the year, and he's missed most of
or large parts of a couple of years prior. But
does average when he's out there on the ice well
over half point per game. And he's certainly somebody who's
going to continue to be a part of this Columbus
Blue Jackets team as long as he can stay healthy.
So I guess that's generous. A guy who you enjoy
when you can enjoy him, and when you can't, you
stash him on an il slot. But with his with
his hits, with the purple value he gives you, I'm
always perfectly happy to keep him around on my team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't go ahead. Yeah, sorry, I don't really
have too many shares a big Genner because he's also
one of these guys that most people I feel like
an overvalue or draft before I do. I definitely would
be looking at him later in my drafts. But he's
also one of these guys that I don't think you
can really count on the point production right because that
fluctuates wildly. We've seen thirty point paces from him, We've
seen sixty one point paces, we've seen sub fifty. He
does have strong perferle contribution, which is great, and in
leagues that count faceoff wins, he's also pretty awesome for that.
So just a category filler. But he's also getting a
little older, and some of the other guys in Columbus
are taking bigger and bigger roles in with Sean Monahan
re emerging. I think there he's like Jenner's role is
just getting more and more depressed. So yeah, I think
he's His days as being a super great sleeper pick
are probably a bit numbered, but at the right place
and the right position in your lineup, he's still an
excellent value.
Speaker 3: So we'll pass over Thomas Harley and I'll cut my
next guy again. The last of my bona fides for
Bash is Tyler Myers. He is always a defenseman. He's
a defenseman who ends up at the bottom of my
roster several times, and I think in one time I've
got him in. Yeah, I've got him in a contract
league where his contract was palatable for what I needed
to do. Is his last year weren't they're not. They don't.
They're not mind blowing, but his black shots are pretty good.
That's where he makes his bones. So this is another
guy who I'm not saying he would be my defenseman one,
defenseman two, defenseman three. He might be about my defenseman
five on a lot of teams, but he can sneak
onto the back end of my roster and a little
bit of extra peripheral coverage for me. So far this
year in his first three games, two hits, three blocks
per game with one shot and no points. We'll skip
because the next guy is not You're Off Victor. He's
my off Danila. You're Off is the name, and we
recall the legend of during the draft. This was a
guy I really targeted because I was hoping that he
could show some of that earlier promise that he wasn't
necessarily showing in Russian minors, and he came pretty well.
He's over in North America now he's playing for the Wild,
so I actually have to worry about whether to put
him on my starting rosters on a given night, and
he's to my surprise. I didn't realize that he was
going to be playing center some of the time, but
he's wing eligible certainly in my leagues. He's not playing
very much for the Wild so far, but he has
thrown a couple of hits four hits so far in
nine minutes per game in his first two games, so
I guess that's a good thing. But I'm hoping he's
going to be able to get himself up into more
of an offensive role to maybe sync with some of
the a certain other Russian on the team instead of
playing just a depth role for the Minnesota Wild. Victor
any takes so far on the early returns for mister Danella,
you're off in North America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, He's someone I talked a bit about over the
end of last season. Over the summer, he has been
really excellent in the KHL, and I had mentioned a
couple of times that people were paying Keen attention that
he was playing center, that he was taking face offs,
and that the team seemed to want him to play center.
Now that's a big step from doing it there to
the NHL, and so I think they're trying that's something
that they want. I'm not sure it's going to actually
work out. They're a bit the Wild have a little
bit of a depth issue down the middle, and so
I think that's part of it. They do have some
options there with some guys who can play both positions,
but it is something that they want him to do,
which I think, which I did also mention, I think
is going to be a problem for him because they're
gonna it takes a little longer to be a center
in the NHL. If you're a winger, a little fewer responsibility,
it's a little bit easier you can play higher in
the lineup. But as a center, I'm not surprised he's
getting fourth line minutes. But he was really good at
his play driving in the KHL, and I am optimistic
that he can get there. It might just take him
a bit of time. Yeah, I do think that he
is someone that is worth targeting and looking at his
scoring from last season isn't necessarily indicative because as people
probably have heard, when you tell your KHL team that
you're leaving for North America, they tend to limit your
I time an opportunity, and so that's what happened with
his last season, and so it looks a lot worse
than two seasons ago when he was literally the best
scorer on the team that helped win the Gargain Cup
for metal Urg. And so he still has a ton
of offensive potential, and so this might represent actually a
really good by low opportunity for your off because he
looks a little like he's not doing so great, But
I think that there's only a matter of time there
where he's going to show his true value.
Speaker 3: The next to the final of my three share players
is a goalie for the Toronto Maple leafs Arturakchiamov, who
is in his second years playing for the Marles of
the AHL. He's another KHL veteran who did pretty well
for himself over there. He's been mid so far for
the Marlees. But this is another a depth goalie effectively
in my prospect system. This is not a guy who
I am promising is going to kill the world. But
to get a pretty good prospect goalie who I think
Kat has spoken positively of. Certainly, I think your rankings
still speak pretty positively of him, who could get into
a role with I'm sorry, a very good Toronto Maple
Leafs team and in a place where I would say
that goalie situation is still far from settled, despite the
fact that they've had good performances from a couple different guys.
But still I still think there's opportunity there for somebody
to come seize that net if they could really kick
butt in the long term. So he's a depth goalie.
I would say, in all the systems twenty prospect systems
that I've got him in, I would probably rate him
in the bottom half of the prospects I have, But
he's a flyer that I would certainly like to hang
on to to see whether he is ultimately able to
get a roll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. God has spoken highly of him, and
we talked specifically about him and hill de Bee and
she we discussed how like Octiyama's game a little bit better,
and I currently have him rated as my fifth best
prospect goalie, so I'm pretty high on him. I think
that he I don't know when the tide is going
to turn that they're going to start looking at him
as an actual viable starter or one bee. I think
that it sounds like we don't really know what's going
on with well. I've heard from people who have some
knowledge of the situation that it sounds like it's a
personal family matter, so that he's okay, But it's just
once he's back then he probably will get tons of start.
So him and still Lars are locked up for a
few more years. So my point is it might be
a minute, and then now they have Caden Primo, it
might That's the problem is it might be a minute
until we actually see meaningful games from Acaiama. But I
think he has all the talent in the world, and
he can always go somewhere else, so that's always something
to keep in mind.
Speaker 3: Yep, that is good. From my three. I'll tell you
I just again if you get to two. I got
a ton of those, so I certainly cannot highlight those.
But one guy that I wish I had gotten a
third share of. Somehow, he actually came up a waiver
wire this summer. But I've held on to him and
held on to him in our common league, Victor, and
that Sean Kuchurier who looks revived, revitalized, tanned, rested, and
ready to do well those back surgeries that he went through.
He's gotten himself off to a really nice start so
far this year with the Philadelphia Fleck. Maybe I need
to trade for him so that I can put him
in my top shares players, Victor, because I've always liked Couturier,
and I think that he's going to have a role
this year with the Flyers of the captain who did
not get along with the last coach and seems to
be getting along just fine with the new ones. So
somebody with the Sean Kacheri in one of our leagues
send me an offer with absolutely tiny value associated with him.
I'll trade you Tyler Myers to acquire him and we'll
both be happy after that event, Victor, what do you
think this wraps up our shares discussion? Any observations you
have from this year, Things that you were surprised maybe
that didn't make your shares or that weren't more strongly represented.
Speaker 2: There were definitely guys I wanted more shares of that
I could not get. I was really frustrating, So I
think that's part of it. It's certainly a large function
is just where you where you end up drafting in
your league, so that's a big part too. I felt
like I either got like first, second or third or
not first. I don't think I had that, but second
or third or I was at the turn in a
lot of my leagues, and so that kind of dictated
a lot of the players that I wanted. I definitely
wanted more shares of Logan Cooley as someone that I
was targeting. There were some younger players breaking into the
league that I wanted more shares of, like a Boom
or some of the younger guys. Snugroot is another one
that I was trying to get. But a lot of
these guys were taken earlier than I would have liked,
and it just depended on your draft position. So yeah,
it was interesting. A lot of it's just dictated by
the flow of the draft, and I try not to
be I think that's the other thing to say is
that I really try not to be attached to any
one player, like I'm gonna get this guy. I think
that did happen a little bit with Doshtahal just because
I tend to fade goalies, but I knew that if
I got Doshtall, I would have an easier time fitting
in other goalies on my roster. So he's one of
the few that i'd reached for. But we're talking reached
in a round eleven or twelve, so it's not like
I went super high. But most of the other guys,
I just let them come to me, which is why
a lot of the guys that I did want to
end up not getting.
Speaker 3: What about you, Yeah, the guys you end up with
your shares episode, your high shares guys, they tend to
be guys who if you really got them in redraft leagues,
they really must be guys you were higher on than
everybody else. In a lot of your dynasty leagues, it's
guys you probably bought low on or were able to
acquire it more of a value than they're at now,
but they stayed on your rosters because they have a role.
That means that you never have moved them or dropped
them or maybe their prospects, like in my case, the
Vorski and you're off guys that I liked better than
other people in their entry draft and we'll see what
they turn out to be. But that's how they ended
up on multiple men rosters at the same time. I
just had them ranked differently from other people. So there's
different ways these guys can get on your rosters. And
again we're talking about when we do a Dynasty Shares episode,
we're really talking about things that have happened over years,
not things that have just happened. This year. You have
much more solid redraft representation in your drafts, which kind
of makes you know, it really does show some of
your interests this year. Sam Brenzel. I'm guessing the majority
of those years probably appeared this year as opposed to
last year. But still, yeah, that was the highlight, folks.
Sam Brenzel it is now Sam Nunyo Brenzel. Victor actually
bought his naming rights to put his name on the
back it's now New Yor Bronzel on the back of
Sam Brenzel's jersey. Vector spent a small fortune on that,
so I feel bad, but he does have him on
almost every team and.
Speaker 2: Happy about it.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, it's gonna be a good year. It's going
to be a good year people, That's what we have
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always hopping. Those leagues are underway and we're having a
lot of fun already. Tony and Patrick are our lead scouts.
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