Elan's away, but Brian's not alone on this brand new episode of the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast!

This edition of the show kicks off with a conversation with tsn.ca's Travis Yost in which we touch on each of the conference finalists, including a weigh-in on the merits of the 'boring' and 'lucky' labels being applied to Ottawa by its detractors. We also talk coaching acumen in Pittsburgh and Anaheim, Duck luck, Nashville's most important defenders, and some of the PP QB roles around the league that may be open to competition.

Then it's on to Brian's chat with FanRag Managing NHL Editor and hockey-graphs.com contributor Carolyn Wilke, in which we go deep on all things Dallas to figure out whether Benn, Seguin, Klingberg & co. are ready for a bounceback next year, and then turn our gaze to the more illuminating performances from this year’s now-concluded world championships.

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Players discussed on this episode include Erik Karlsson, Hampus Lindholm, Corey Perry, Ryan Getzlaf, Jakob Silfverberg, Ryan Ellis, PK Subban, Roman Josi, Jake Guentzel, Filip Forsberg, Ryan Johansen, Ben Bishop, Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, John Klingberg, pretty much every Dallas Star, Nathan MacKinnon, Nikita Gusev, Colton Parayko, Zach Werenski, Ryan Suter, Jake Gardiner, Sami Vatanen, Cam Fowler, Clayton Keller and more.

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