No. 630 - More Un/Pleasant Surprises 2025-26
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What do the hosts say at the beginning of the episode and how do they set up the surprise‑and‑disappointment theme?
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episode of the Keep Cards on Fantasy Podcast, the Lundfunning Fantasy Economic Podcast and the World Host by Two Guys. Hope you'll be pleasantly surprised with this second installment of our pleasantly surprised and terribly disappointed series from last year's fantasy season. We're talking about players who both brought us joy when we drafted them later than they ended up being worth. And then the opposite, the guys who really let us down. I'm your host, Dylan Dubrowski, with me to go through. I guess the rest of the Eastern Conference. We'll see if we get a little bit into the West. It's Brian Calm. Brian, how's it going? Hey, I'm good.
Happy to be here. Thanks, uh thank you, Elon, for being here. Thank you, listener, for being here. Yeah, we're gonna talk about who surprised us pleasantly and who surprised us unpleasantly. We got most of the way through the east well in the last episode.
Did we? We didn't get to any of the playoff teams except for Philly. So we did f I know we ended with Michkov and how much he disappointed us. So we're gonna start with Pittsburgh today. So I guess seven teams to go. One player who disappointed people yesterday is Alex Lyon in that game. Got pulled. UPL came in. I don't know. This is like are we supposed to take anything away from what's I I guess our our credo is generally not to take anything away for fantasy, but I've got Uka Pekka. Is this guy cooked or is he about to win the cup, you know, and go go go on a run? Like I feel like at this point, I don't know, should I be trying to trade UPL right now or should I be excited? Uh 'cause don't know. Is he some someone could be
Could
be a hero here. The other uh I thought when you said Alex, I was like, Oh yeah, Alex Tuck. Oh, nothing.
Very disappointed. That's gonna be one of those like injured, oh he's been playing with a torniscus or whatever. That's my guess. I mean maybe not,
I don't know. He uh this series, uh game one, he only had one shot on goal, but uh in four of the other five games that have been played so far, he's had four more shots. Twenty shots per touchbit in his last five games. So like he's he's getting opportunities. He's also not on the top power play, which isn't necessarily like a new development. But he's taking so but he's taking a lot of shots, even though he's not on the top unit.
Um He'll be on a new team next year anyway. He'll be UFA. So we'll be talking a lot of we'll be talking Alex Tuck a lot in a couple months. July first. That's always fun. You I know I'm looking too far ahead. Habs fans are like, let's just get through Monday and Sabres fans. We have Sabres fans in the and Habs, yeah. It's gonna be an exciting day tomorrow for sure. Over on the Montreal side. Also, there was a game where Dob yeah, Dobish got pulled also. I saw it was some stat it was like the first game in a really long time that without an injury and four different Goalies played in the game. Fowler like barely got in because he came and then they they pulled the goalie and then they played a little bit uh six on four six on five.
But anyway, okay, you all know what happened in the big Sabres Habs game yesterday. I saw another fun stat that that Carolina Hurricanes have only played five games, or by the time they played game one, they'll have only played five games in the past like six weeks. I don't know, some crazy stat. Like they're just like the most rested conference finalists ever. Uh so I'm curious to see if that'll help or hurt them. But this is not a playoffs analysis show. We're already looking this is more like a year in review, looking forward to the future, trying to see what we can take away from some of these players who surprised us. And I guess we will talk some playoffs since these are all playoff teams. Uh let's start with Pittsburgh.
Brian, last episode we were taking turns, uh being the one who gave our pick first.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What do the hosts say at the beginning of the episode and how do they set up the surprise‑and‑disappointment theme?
0:09–4:47
2
Which Pittsburgh players are highlighted as the season’s biggest pleasant and unpleasant surprises?
4:47–14:37
3
What were the most unexpected fantasy outcomes for the Ottawa Senators this year?
14:37–59:59
4
What is the bingo hot‑take debate and why do the hosts think it’s a dumb take?
59:59–1:11:13
5
Which Eastern players (e.g., Jason Zucker, Josh Norris, Andre Svechnikov) are called out as pleasant or unpleasant surprises?
1:11:13–1:34:33
6
How do the hosts assess the Western teams – especially Calgary, Vancouver and the West overall – and who are the biggest disappointments?
1:34:33–1:49:53
7
What are the final takeaways on San Jose (Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith) and what do the hosts expect for the next season?
1:49:53–1:55:04