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Ha I didn't even add up the AAV, stupid AI 🤣

Inevitable is right ! But feel it'll take some time or I could be completely wrong and we have a sky net on our hands haha 😄

Well i was messing around with Chat GPT to see what the fuse was about. Was trying my hand at some AI bot cocktails and figured I should see if it knew anything about hockey. Here is what happened; Jon: Build me the best NHL fantasy team 2023, 21 players with team cap of 102 million dollars using each players AAV. 18 skater and 3 goalies. 4 centreman, 4 left wingers, 4 right wingers, 6 defenseman and 3 goalies. Stats used are the following: goals, assists, plus/minus, penalty minutes, shots on goal, special teams assists, special teams goals, hits, blocks, takeaways and faceoffs won. Goalie stats are: wins, goals against average, saves, save percentage and shutouts. CHAT GPT: As a language model AI I don't have access to the exact information of the current NHL fantasy team so here's the best possible team I could come up with based on some NHL player data: Centremen: Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers) - AAV: $12.5 million Auston Matthews (Toronto Maple Leafs) - AAV: $11.6 million Nathan MacKinnon (Colorado Avalanche) - AAV: $6.3 million Jack Eichel (Buffalo Sabres) - AAV: $10 million Left Wingers: Brad Marchand (Boston Bruins) - AAV: $6.125 million Gabriel Landeskog (Colorado Avalanche) - AAV: $5.57 million Artemi Panarin (New York Rangers) - AAV: $11.642 million Jamie Benn (Dallas Stars) - AAV: $9.5 million Right Wingers: David Pastrnak (Boston Bruins) - AAV: $6.66 million Mikko Rantanen (Colorado Avalanche) - AAV: $9.25 million Sebastian Aho (Carolina Hurricanes) - AAV: $8.454 million Patrick Kane (Chicago Blackhawks) - AAV: $10.5 million Defensemen: Roman Josi (Nashville Predators) - AAV: $9.059 million Victor Hedman (Tampa Bay Lightning) - AAV: $7.875 million Kris Letang (Pittsburgh Penguins) - AAV: $7.25 million Brent Burns (San Jose Sharks) - AAV: $8 million Alex Pietrangelo (Vegas Golden Knights) - AAV: $8.8 million Shea Weber (Montreal Canadiens) - AAV: $7.857 million Goalies: Andrei Vasilevskiy (Tampa Bay Lightning) - AAV: $9.5 million Tuukka Rask (Boston Bruins) - AAV: $7 million Carey Price (Montreal Canadiens) - AAV: $10.5 million Total Team Cap: $102 million Note: The above data might not be accurate because NHL player contracts and AAV's keep changing. If you want to give er a rip, check out https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ then click on "Try Chat GPT" What are your thoughts, will AI be able to create an awesome team in the future ? Lets see what you can come up with, maybe changing the wording in your ask to Chat GPT will make you the next banner winner ahahah !!! I tried regenerating it a few times and for the most part the players stayed the same. Thought it was pretty cool, but seems their pulling old stats from a few years back. I believe Open AI (CHAT GPT) only has a few years worth of Data (heard rumors it was from 2019/2020 till present). @James if any issues with this post and/or if this should have been posted somewhere else ( wasn't sure if this should go under the peanut gallery or here).

Just listened to the Podcast with the fearless leader/commish, great Job guys and look forward to listening to the rest and catching up.

Habs with zero holy smokes hahaha

Hopkins is another

Report: NHL teams can suspend unvaccinated players with exceptions https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/2194878 So this report is stating players can opt out of the season by Oct 1st, what will happen to these capwise owned players ? Not that I'm worried about it much, but wil players just be considered on IR or something if they do ? @James

2 players who would have had to been protected

Well its been very quiet in this Habs household, unfortunate result yes but who knew Montreal would make it that far ? I surely didn't and enjoyed the ride, incredible ! Now I see myself scouring the internet getting sucked into this weird rabbit hole of trade rumors, big names are out there and we have a new team joining the League. What will happen to Eichel ? does he get shipped or does his counterpart Sam Reinhart get moved ? What about Duchene and Johansen in Nashville ? do the Preds make a deal with the Karken ? Will the Kraken be built like Vegas ? Duncan Keith ? not sure what kind of return you get on that, he's great but the Mileage is high. RFA Laine, Makar and Kaprizov to name a few, what kind of contracts are we looking at ? Im sure you've seen it all, but what do you feel is going to happen ? Does Phillip "PIZZA" Danault get more than $5mil a year ? Let me know some of your thoughts, Tin hats welcome ! I want an Eichel Trade, I think Rangers would be a good fit. Makar gets an offer sheet, Pull a Bergy

Rest easy, your brother awaits !

ah yes ! or Dominique ?

Sure is Habs sure love bringing back old coaches

Well another one bites the dust, but this one seems a little odd. The team has struggled somewhat but are tied for a Wild card spot, on the losing of tie breaker and are 3 points from firs in their DIV. I thought Mr.G was a beaut in Vegas, maybe there is some unknown behind the scene .. a la florida panthers maybe ???

Salary isn't front loaded either, id consider the guy if it was..

Kovy will do just fine, this is essentially his last chance for some sort of redemption. He'll perform better than he did in LA, he knows he has to if he wants to be relevant in the NHL

i think its more like your next two 1st rounders plus roster and/or prospect

Habs are likely not making the playoffs ( still rocking an 11% chance lol ) i think its a good signing regardless where he plays in the lineup. Maybe the kids in the minors arent ready for NHL action. probably better off letting them get some experience in there current location as opposed to calling them up to early and possibly losing what confidence they might have at there level. maybe it works out and as Vegeta said he gets traded, i think any GM would pay 700k for a 3rd pick Laferniere is a dream, but likely not gonna happen. Montreal would have to tank hard, would have to finish 5th or less (currently sitting 8th from last place)

HIP surgery for point, out until late OCT

I personally dont think he'll be suspended, i think he'll miss games due to him being in a substance abuse program.

Awesome gents!

Malkin (1002), Toews (755) and the great one (2857)! Points in brackets.

if point isn't interested what about other RFA's ? Bergevin needs to do something with all that cap space, this would be the 3 rd year he has a shit tonne of room and doesn't do anything with it.

Does Bergevin go after another RFA lol !??

Has still have around 8 mil to do something if anything, not like this prevented them to acquire anyone. Bergy wasn't going to go after a top tear player and potentially overpay, so he goes a route that no one has done in awhile ( maybe this shows the league something about how the offer sheet isn't working and should be fixed to make it usable). why not give it a go, seems there has to be some sort of background info that we arent privy to and he they believe it can cause them issues/something to think about. Regardless i think the Canes match, but it would be awesome if Aho went to habs go habs go !!