Yes! We discuss a trade made for Laine! After all the shade we've thrown, one of now owns him. We also go over the latest hockey news and get you prepped for the weekend with some pickup suggestions.

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Players discussed in this episode:

Kevin Boyle, Taylor Hall, Evgeni Malkin, Micheal Ferland, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Nicklas Backstrom, Casey Mittelstadt, Danton Heinen, Jake DeBrusk, Anthony Stolarz, Luke Kunin, Jason Pominville, Mats Zuccarello, Corey Perry

Another weirdly on-time Unsustainable Wednesday is here, and we've addressed a lot of the players from responses on Twitter! Vincent Trocheck, Jordan Binnington, and Kyle Palmieri are just a sneak peak of some of the contentious players we discuss this week.

As always, you can find us on Twitter @FantasyHockeyPD or just send an email at [email protected]

Players discussed in this episode:

Mika Zibanejad, Kyle Connor, Jack Roslovic, Jake Muzzin, Andreas Johnsson, Adrian Kempe, Sam Reinhart, Jaden Schwartz, Mark Stone, William Karlsson, James van Riemsdyk, Jakub Voracek, Vladimir Tarasenko, Jonathan Toews, Tuukka Rask, Brock Boeser, John Gibson, Charlie McAvoy, Colton Parayko, Semyon Varlamov, Wayne Simmonds, Ryan Getzlaf, Dylan Strome, Kevin Labanc, Alex Galchenyuk, Jakub Vrana, Brock McGinn, Vincent Trocheck, Phil Kessel, Evgenii Dadonov, Sean Monahan, Matthew Tkachuk, Evander Kane, Patrick Kane, Robin Lehner, Jordan Binnington, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Ryan Pulock, Jake Allen, Miro Heiskanen, Neal Pionk, Zach Werenski, Kyle Palmieri

Only three weeks left in many leagues until the start of playoffs! Week 18 gives us a more balanced week with slightly less busy heavy days. As always, we give some long and short term pickup suggestions including Dylan Strome, Bryan Rust, and Travis Konecny.

Check is out on Twitter @FantasyHockeyPD or throw us an email at [email protected] for any questions.

Players discussed in this episode:

Dylan Strome, Andreas Johnsson, Phil Kessel, Evgeni Malkin, Carter Hart, John Gibson, Ben Bishop, Jeff Carter, Mikko Koivu, Nick Bjugstad, Ondrej Palat, Alexander Edler, Thatcher Demko, William Carrier, Andrew Shaw, Dylan Larkin, Kyle Turris, Dustin Byfuglien, Boone Jenner, Brayden Point, Oscar Klefbom, Thomas Vanek, Tyler Toffoli, Jakob Chychrun, Nino Niederreiter, Brandon Tanev, Bryan Rust, Travis Konecny, Josh Leivo, Anthony Stolarz

Playoff dreams are getting made and crushed as we inch closer to the end of the fantasy regular season. We talk about looming trades in the news, and discuss the very few options there are to maximize starts for the weekend.

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In this episode we give a rather detailed discussion about goaltenders. Specifically two goalies in very similar slumps but happen to be in entirely different situations, John Gibson and Semyon Varlamov. We also give you some player highlights such as Jaden Schwartz, Brock Boeser, and Sam Reinhart.

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Players discussed in this episode:

Frank Vatrano, Dylan Strome, Nazem Kadri, William Nylander, Jonathan Toews, Evander Kane, Lawson Crouse, Timo Meier, Auston Matthews, P.K. Subban, Jakob Chychrun, Thomas Chabot, Robin Lehner, Max Pacioretty, Paul Stastny, Brayden Schenn, Leon Draisaitl, Ryan O'Reilly, Mattias Ekholm, Jacob Trouba, Ryan McDonagh, Jake Allen, Charlie McAvoy, Mika Zibanejad, Kyle Connor, Jack Roslovic, Jake Muzzin, Andreas Johnsson, Adrian Kempe, Sam Reinhart, Jaden Schwartz, Alexander Edler, Mark Stone, William Karlsson, James van Riemsdyk, Jakub Voracek, Vladimir Tarasenko, Tuukka Rask, Brock Boeser, John Gibson, Semyon Varlamov, Colton Parayko, Wayne Simmonds, Ryan Getzlaf

It's a real busy week in the NHL so we go over who you're going to want to stream. Additionally, we dig into the schedule and let you know how to take advantage of the few off-nights (NYR, looking at you).

As always, feel free to send your questions and trades to us on Twitter: @FantasyHockeyPD

Players discussed in this episode:

Erik Cernak, John Gibson, Vladimir Tarasenko, Patrick Kane, Erik Gustafsson, Boone Jenner, Dylan Larkin, Evgeni Malkin, Erik Karlsson, David Perron, Brayden Point, Corey Perry, Oscar Klefbom, Dustin Byfuglien, Reilly Smith, Cory Schneider, Tuukka Rask, Micheal Ferland, Mark Borowiecki, Mats Zuccarello, Kevin Shattenkirk, Linus Ullmark, Bryan Little, Nino Niederreiter, Dylan Strome, Juuse Saros, Anthony Stolarz, Kevin Hayes, Travis Konecny, Patrick Marleau, Garret Sparks

Things get a little heated during the news segment of this one! We go over the recent Muzzin deal, discuss some future trade speculation, and give you our weekup pickup suggestions heading into a hard weekend to plan for.

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Players discussed in this episode:

Jake Muzzin, Artemi Panarin, Carter Hart, Patrik Laine, Oscar Klefbom, Micheal Ferland, Darnell Nurse, Pavel Buchnevich, Mats Zuccarello, Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad, Filip Chytil, Kevin Hayes, Nino Niederreiter, Mikael Backlund, Juuse Saros, Jaccob Slavin, Erik Cernak, Nick Bonino

Boy oh boy do we have an episode for you! We go over different rest of season strategies depending on where you are in the standings. We discuss what to do if you're a favorite, contender, fringe or rebuilding team. On top of that we give you specific targets to eye in trades. 

As the trade deadline gets closer, be sure to follow us on Twitter and send over any trades you are questioning, we'll answer them all! @FantasyHockeyPD

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We're smack in the middle of the All-Star break and releasing one more episode before our next special! We wanted to make sure we had the entire week's worth of games before recording the Unsustainable edition, and then a myriad of timing problems set us back, but here we are! We have a few hot takes in this one including Thomas Chabot, William Nylander, and Frank Vatrano.

Every week we ask who you'd like us to talk about, follow us on twitter to get your suggestions in! @FantasyHockeyPD

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Players discussed in this episode:

Jordan Binnington, Michael Frolik, Oskar Sundqvist, James van Riemsdyk, Bryan Little, Nolan Patrick, Shea Weber, Brock Boeser, Bo Horvat, John Gibson, Nicklas Backstrom, Ondrej Palat, Micheal Ferland, Blake Coleman, Patrick Kane, Sebastian Aho, Robin Lehner, J.T. Miller, Drew Doughty, Miro Heiskanen, Shayne Gostisbehere, William Karlsson, Ilya Kovalchuk, Frank Vatrano, Dylan Strome, Nazem Kadri, William Nylander, Jonathan Toews, Evander Kane, Lawson Crouse, Timo Meier, Auston Matthews, P.K. Subban, Jakob Chychrun, Thomas Chabot, Max Pacioretty, Paul Stastny, Brayden Schenn, Leon Draisaitl, Ryan O'Reilly, Mattias Ekholm, Jacob Trouba, Ryan McDonagh, Jake Allen, Charlie McAvoy

Hopefully your league has an extended week coming up, because these schedules are crazy! Luckily, there's only one heavy day on the extended week (Saturday, Feb 2nd) which opens up tons of opportunities for streaming.

As always you can find us @FantasyHockeyPD on Twitter, or [email protected]

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• Teams with 4 games:

• CAR, MIN, NSH, PHI, PIT, VGK, WSH, WPG

• STL (@LAK, @ANA)

Players discussed in this episode:

Nolan Patrick, Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Evander Kane, Vladimir Tarasenko, Robin Lehner, Auston Matthews, Erik Johnson, Jake Gardiner, Elias Pettersson, Patric Hornqvist, Erik Karlsson, Colin Miller, Mark Borowiecki, Ondrej Kase, David Perron, Vincent Trocheck, Matt Duchene, Thomas Chabot, Nikita Zadorov, Ondrej Palat, Alex Chiasson, Carter Hart, Mike Green, Nino Niederreiter, Darcy Kuemper, Mats Zuccarello, Frank Vatrano, Josh Leivo, Sven Baertschi, Jakob Chychrun, Justin Williams, Pat Maroon, Laurent Brossoit