A wild Wednesday that tackles a lot of big questions. Will Seguin and Tarasenko turn it around? Can Rantanen and MacKinnon actually keep this pace? Will Alex Ovechkin keep scoring like this? And is Nylander... sustainably low? Catch it all in today's episode.

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Players discussed in this episode:

Ondrej Kase, Josh Morrissey, Timo Meier, Tomas Tatar, Andreas Johnsson, Brad Marchand, Seth Jones, Jack Eichel, Vladimir Tarasenko, Ryan O'Reilly, Alexander Radulov, Mark Stone, Kyle Palmieri, Erik Karlsson, Mikko Koskinen, Dylan Larkin, Jeff Petry, Phil Kessel, David Rittich, Kevin Shattenkirk, J.T. Miller, Mathew Barzal, Henri Jokiharju, Andrei Svechnikov, Kevin Hayes, Alex Ovechkin, Elias Pettersson, Miro Heiskanen, Tyler Seguin, Evgeni Malkin, Wayne Simmonds, Darnell Nurse, Clayton Keller, Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon, Bryan Rust, Ivan Provorov, Shea Theodore, Jacob Trouba, Ryan Reaves, Jonathan Quick, James van Riemsdyk, William Nylander

The schedule always tends to get crazy as we near the All-Star break but we're here to break it down. We have a lot of pickup targets for you along with all the injury news you need to get you through the week. Oh, and we have an outro now.

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Players discussed in this episode:

Dustin Byfuglien, Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, Darnell Nurse, Shayne Gostisbehere, Mikko Koskinen, Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, Alexander Radulov, Kris Letang, Mikko Koivu, Alex Galchenyuk, Taylor Hall, Tom Wilson, Mike Smith, Mike Green, Kris Russell, Mats Zuccarello, Paul Stastny, Max Pacioretty, Oscar Klefbom, Kevin Shattenkirk, Micheal Ferland, Rickard Rakell, Jaden Schwartz, T.J. Oshie, Olli Maatta, Ondrej Kase, Dustin Brown, Nick Schmaltz, Alexander Edler, Andrew Shaw, Nikolay Goldobin, Alex Chiasson, Zach Aston-Reese, Jesper Bratt, Oscar Lindberg, Josh Bailey, Anthony Beauvillier, Carl Soderberg

A weekend with TONS of pickup suggestions but we still manage to keep it short and sweet for you all.

Teams with good matchups: ARI (@NYR, @CAR), DET (V OTT, @NYI), EDM (V PHI, @VAN), VGK (@NJD, @NYR).

Teams with bad matchups: BOS (@PIT, V BUF), BUF (@WSH, @BOS), NJD (VGK, @NSH), STL (COL, CGY), CHI.(V WPG, V SJS)

Teams that play both off days (Fri, Sun): ARI, BOS, CAR, CHI, EDM, NYR, STL, VGK, WPG.

In this episode we cover various big names such as Dylan Larkin, Jack Eichel, Phil Kessel, Ryan O’Reilly and Erik Karlsson. We also talk about bums like Shattenkirk and... Mathew Barzal? We also go through a trade one of us recently made and talk through the thinking/strategy behind it. 

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Players discussed in this episode:

Alex Tuch, Evgenii Dadonov, Jacob Trouba, Mathieu Joseph, Adin Hill, Eeli Tolvanen, Tyler Bertuzzi, Pontus Aberg, Shayne Gostisbehere, Kyle Palmieri, Kyle Connor, Jason Zucker, Brad Marchand, Brandon Montour, Devan Dubnyk, Elias Lindholm, Anze Kopitar, Jonathan Drouin, Ryan Reaves, Oscar Klefbom, Nick Schmaltz, Sam Reinhart, Keith Kinkaid, Nazem Kadri, James van Riemsdyk, Chris Kreider, Tyler Toffoli, Will Butcher, Jaroslav Halak, Ondrej Kase, Josh Morrissey, Timo Meier, Tomas Tatar, Andreas Johnsson, Seth Jones, Jack Eichel, Vladimir Tarasenko, Ryan O'Reilly, Alexander Radulov, Mark Stone, Erik Karlsson, Mikko Koskinen, Dylan Larkin, Jeff Petry, Phil Kessel, David Rittich, Kevin Shattenkirk, J.T. Miller, Mathew Barzal, Henri Jokiharju

The beginning of the double digit weeks brings us a welcome balanced week which should provide easier to manage bench positions. We discuss the previous week, go over all the fantasy relevant injury news, and as always give our long and short term pickup suggestions while previewing the week to come.

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Players discussed in this episode:

Gustav Nyquist, Jonathan Huberdeau, Mike Hoffman, Evgenii Dadonov, Aleksander Barkov, Keith Yandle, Mark Giordano, Jack Eichel, Jeff Skinner, Jason Pominville, Sam Reinhart, Patrik Laine, Adin Hill, Antti Raanta, Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan, Elias Lindholm, Brock Boeser, Elias Pettersson, Nikolay Goldobin, Sergei Bobrovsky, Charlie McAvoy, Josh Morrissey, Paul Stastny, Tom Wilson, Matt Duchene, Curtis McElhinney, Mikko Koivu, Rickard Rakell, Dustin Byfuglien, Timo Meier, Tyson Barrie, Anthony Mantha, Dustin Brown, Alexander Edler, Nick Schmaltz, Colin White, Michal Kempny, Tanner Pearson, Ryan Pulock, Josh Bailey, Brandon Saad, Alex Chiasson

Another weekend with another very heavy Saturday slate means off nights are even more important. We'll give you some suggestions to stream while avoiding Saturday and go over some NHL news including a backup/starter goalie report covering netminders like Rask, Rittich, and Koskinen.

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Players discussed in this episode:

Tom Wilson, Ryan Reaves, Pontus Aberg, Rickard Rakell, Patrick Eaves, David Rittich, Mike Smith, Mikko Koskinen, Cam Talbot, Casey DeSmith, Tristan Jarry, Matt Murray, Jaroslav Halak, Tuukka Rask, Adin Hill, Darcy Kuemper, Antti Raanta, Daniel Sprong, Nick Schmaltz, Brendan Perlini, Dylan Strome, Alex Chiasson, Tyler Bozak, Jacob Trouba, Josh Morrissey, Gavin Bayreuther, Adam Henrique, Cody Eakin

Schedule:

• Teams with good matchups:

• ANA (CAR, NJD)

• DAL (V SJS, @VGK)

• ANA, DAL, EDM, STL, WPG

It's everyone's favorite episode (apparently)! This week features Ryan Reaves (why wouldn't it), Nazem Kadri, Nick Schmaltz, and many others that we received questions about.

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Players discussed in this episode:

Patrik Laine, Tom Wilson, Jonathan Huberdeau, David Krejci, Austin Watson, Jeff Skinner, Alex Chiasson, Kasperi Kapanen, Patrick Kane, Ryan Getzlaf, Antti Raanta, Tuukka Rask, Dougie Hamilton, Mike Green, Max Pacioretty, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Braden Holtby, Anthony Mantha, Travis Konecny, Jake Gardiner, Nico Hischier, Colton Parayko, Jakub Voracek, Nolan Patrick, Mikhail Sergachev, Cam Talbot, Esa Lindell, Alex Tuch, Evgenii Dadonov, Jacob Trouba, Mathieu Joseph, Adin Hill, Eeli Tolvanen, Tyler Bertuzzi, Pontus Aberg, Shayne Gostisbehere, Kyle Palmieri, Kyle Connor, Jason Zucker, Brad Marchand, Brandon Montour, Devan Dubnyk, Elias Lindholm, Anze Kopitar, Jonathan Drouin, Ryan Reaves, Oscar Klefbom, Nick Schmaltz, Sam Reinhart, Keith Kinkaid, Nazem Kadri, James van Riemsdyk, Chris Kreider, Tyler Toffoli, Will Butcher, Jaroslav Halak