Fantasy waiver wire pickups: Week 8

Pete, Rob and guest James Harding (@WaiverWireJames) highlight the best fantasy pickups entering the eighth week of the season. The guys discuss some underrated forward pickups around the League, including Jesper Bratt, Andreas Johnsson, Zack Kassian, Michael Bunting, Tage Thompson, Rickard Rakell and Aliaksei Protas. Other topics covered include buying low on Semyon Varlamov during the Islanders’ struggles or targeting Jack Hughes before he returns from injury, trading Nazem Kadri in fantasy during his hot start to the season and other pickups including James Reimer, Dan Vladar, Viktor Arvidsson, Adam Boqvist, Bowen Byram, Valeri Nichushkin and more.