Fantasy waiver wire pickups: Week 5

Pete and Rob are joined by “Waiver Wire” James Harding to highlight the best fantasy pickups entering the fifth week of the season. The guys break down the Blackhawks’ coaching change from Jeremy Colliton to Derek King and whether it might spark any players fantasy-wise. They also discuss injuries to Aleksander Barkov, Patrik Laine, Filip Forsberg and Anthony Mantha with replacement options from in-house and other teams around the League. Other topics discussed in the show include the returns of Semyon Varlamov, Mats Zuccarello, Bryan Rust and Devon Toews, some hidden value (e.g. Rasmus Asplund, stash Alex Tuch) from the Sabres after the Jack Eichel trade, whether to drop Carter Verhaeghe for Anthony Duclair, other new Panthers players to add like Anton Lundell and Brandon Montour and deep league options like Cole Sillinger, Kale Clague and James Reimer vs. Martin Jones.