On this episode of the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast, Elan and Brian read as deeply as we'll allow ourselves to read into the first 6 days of NHL action, highlighting the players whose crazy good or crazy bad performances have given us the most reason to question the expectations we had for them going into the year. This episode of Keeping Karlsson is sponsored by Underdog Fantasy. Underdog is the easiest way to play fantasy sports. Draft teams for daily fantasy contests or make your own pick em slips. Sign up with the code KEEPING and make your first deposit of $10, and you'll get $10 FREE in bonus cash. Want to stay up to date on all the latest NHL line combos and fantasy news? Follow our @GameDayLines, @GameDayNewsNHL, and @GameDayGoalies accounts on Twitter to know what you need to know as soon as you can know it. Also visit GameDayLineTweets.com for line combo tweets sorted by NHL team. Players covered on this episode include Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty, Vladimir Tkachev, Steven Stamkos, Connor McDavid, Jesse Puljujarvi, Mike Smith, Tyson Barrie, Alex Ovechkin, Vitek Vanecek, Ilya Samsonov, Tyler Bertuzzi, Lucas Raymond, Thomas Greiss, Alex Nedeljkovic, Elvis Merzlikins, Tristan Jarry, Max Pacioretty, Mark Stone, Alex Pietrangelo, Reilly Smith, Nick Ritchie, Michael Bunting, Jeff Petry, Jonathan Drouin, Vincent Trocheck, Martin Necas, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Dmitrij Jaskin, Shayne Gostisbehere, Jakob Chychrun, Karel Vejmelka, Lawson Crouse, Patrik Laine, Tomas Tatar, Jack Hughes, Sam Reinhart, Anthony Duclair, Sam Bennett, Patric Hornqvist, Trevor Zegras, Connor Hellebuyck, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Ilya Sorokin, Marc-Andre Fleury, Kevin Lankinen, Jonathan Toews, Robin Lehner, Andrei Vasilevskiy and more. We always invite and appreciate your feedback. Let us know what you think @keepingkarlsson, and if you love the show, please rate and write us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. * * * Join our inclusive, passionate and brilliant Keeping Karlsson community by becoming a patron of Keeping Karlsson. For the cost of one arena soft pretzel each month, patrons help us keep making new episodes and get all kinds of perks in return, like managing teams in the Keeping Karlsson Ultimate Patron Fantasy League (aka the KKUPFL), access to our patrons-only Discord Server, bonus monthly Patroncasts, and weekly show scripts. Keeping Karlsson is proudly presented by Dobber Hockey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices