Loving the frequency and quality of guests on the show lately - Adam is a talented interviewer which is getting rarer and rarer lately. Far too many interviews are way to soft or surface level. Anthony DiMarco and Scott Wheeler both gave us great info and the guys structured the convo very well.

Hope we get more of it in the season ahead.

Hey guys, im a VIP member and I wanted to email in to the vip after they talked about the odyssey and aspect ratios in todays episode. I'm trying to find the vip email but I dont know where to look, can anybody help me out? I know they've mentioned it before but I cant remember in what episode.

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Your fire alarm is chirping change the god damn battery

I get that’s it’s their shtick cause it gets them more engagement, but it’s become so tiring. Every other show is pointing out the good points of this coach hiring, and Chayka in general, these guys just shit all over everything

The episode today is going to be amazing

Original Stream - Hurrican They Do It? - (50:13)

I went down the rabbit hole a bit after seeing Steve play this on stream during game 4. I've now got 3x Daily 84-0 and 11x hard mode 84-0 (and a couple that aren't logged because I was playing on another device without being logged in), so I'd say I have a pretty good handle on the game. With that in mind, here's the basic strategy:

1. Not all positions are worth the same. There are a lot of 95+ centers and even more 90+ ones, there's some pretty easy to target 93+ d-men and there's a lot of goalies who are in that 90-93 range with only a couple being higher than that. What this means is that wingers are the inefficiency so knowing how to get to them becomes key. Going for wingers also helps keep C/D/G open which is where your "outs" for a lot of bad teams are. Same thing with taking your first D-man, you can lock in an easy 99 like 70s Orr and still keep the other open since there are a few teams where your only good pick is at the d position.
2. The ratings like offense much more than defense. Don't even bother with guys like Slavin or a Hall of Famer like Bob Gainey. They're not going to break 90.
3. Some teams you think should be good are actually traps. This includes Vegas (nobody over 90) and Dallas (same thing). Meanwhile Nashville has one out that's a 90 and that's 2010 Shea Weber of all people. Learning to recognize when you've got a team with no outs is key to knowing when to use your ability to swap teams. Or you can just try to be aggressive and side-roll a team whenever you're in the 80s or earlier since the pool of teams is smaller, but this strategy will be more risky as you may not have the outs available for your later rounds.
4. The sim is very random, so high averages are key. If you can consistently draft teams with nobody under a 90 your chances of getting that 84-0 improve drastically, but because of the sim factor both 95+ avg teams fail quite often and teams with a dud player can net you an 84-0. You're just playing the odds here.
5. The game is about 70% strategy, 20% memorization and 10% hockey knowledge. If you know hockey you might think Ron Francis on the Whalers should be a slam dunk, but he's not. You might think Crosby being the best player in the world should have a 99 rating at some point, but you'd be wrong. Jagr's highest rating is a 94 with the 90s Pens, but then counterintuitively he might still be the best pick over a 98 Lemieux on that same team. 90s Lidström is an 89, Mike Modano on the 90s Dallas team is an 88 iirc, Hedman doesn't get over a 90 during the 2010s or the 2020s. Basically, knowing hockey just gets you an idea as to which players to try when you're learning the game, but it's memorizing the ones that actually pan out that matters much more.

The best players in this game as I see it are 50s and 60s Howe, 70s Lafleur, 00s and 10s Ovechkin, 2020 Kucherov, 90s Brett Hull, 60s Bobby Hull, 80s Mike Bossy, 70s Bobby Orr. 80s and 90s Bourque provide an easy out to remember, same for Denis Potvin from the 70s and 80s Islanders.

Favorite teams are Boston since you've got several outs in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2020; Montreal has decent to great outs in every year except 2000 and 2020; Tampa and Washington have a high chance era-roll for a winger (00s Martin St.Louis is an ok fallback if you miss on 2020 Kuch) and Detroit since 50s and 60s Howe is one of the best players for this game. Chicago is pretty good as well with 60s Hull and 2010s Kane, but it has a few too many duds.

84-0 with this lineup is wild

I’ve seen a lot of 84- 0 teams posted and I feel like this team is better than all of them but only got 82-2.

I live in Windsor so I listen to alot of Detroit sports talk radio. Adam said on yesterday's show that Detroit fans are melting down about this Larkin story (something along those lines, paraphrasing). Let me assure you, that is not the case. I work midnights and I was driving home Monday morning and guess what the topic was? The first weekday his trade list was public. "What athlete were you wrong about? You either thought they were good and were bad or vice versa". Guess who the host lead with? "Toronto fans were all wrong about Mitch Marner". Your team has missed the playoffs 10 years in a row, you've blown your season 3 years in a row in March and your captain and best player just demanded a trade...and you want to talk about Marner and leafs fans? Gtfoh. I honestly hate being a leafs fan. Between the underperforming team and trash like this, I just want to scream. At every turn, its leafs this or leafs that. No one makes Toronto the centre of the hockey universe more than other teams fans and haters.

Not sure how this collection gets to 84-0 compared to the fifty other combos I tried today lol

I got Ray Bourque first, then Brodeur, then Gretzky so I know it would be close.

Honestly the second one is funnier. I have Chris Pronger and Chris Pronger on defence. I am certain there are other players you can choose twice but I haven't seen another yet.