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Welcome to the NHL DFS Man Advantage for a Monday night and we have a 7 game slate to break down!
Tonight we have a 7 game slate that focuses around the West division with 6 of their 8 teams in action as well as two potentially high-scoring games from the North division as well. Lastly, we have a possible playoff matchup with Florida traveling to Nashville, and from the same Central division, Carolina is in Dallas as the Stars try to get themselves into the playoffs. Colorado is playing St. Louis for the fourth game in a row and is coming off a disastrous game where they blew a 3-0 lead so we knew they will want to come out flying. There are a ton of pay-up spots tonight with McDavid, Draisaitl, Mackinnon, Barkov, and some of the high-priced Jets on the slate as well.
NHL DFS: Goaltenders
Cash Game Goalie:
Braden Holtby ($8,000/$7,100)
Holtby could be the chalk option of the night in a matchup with Ottawa. It also helps that both sites priced him down for this matchup, especially FanDuel. Holtby has been on a roll since the Canucks have returned from their COVID break. In his last three starts, Holtby is 3-0 with 7 goals allowed and made 100 saves on 107 shots in that span. Included in his modest win streak Holtby defeated the Senators stopping 26 of 28 shots faced.
Other Cash Options: Jonas Johansson ($8,400/$8,700), James Reimer ($8,300/$8,500)
GPP Goalie:
John Gibson ($7,100/$6,600)
“And it’s been awhile since I wrote up John Gibson” (sung like the Staind song “It’s Been a While”. Gibson is one of, if not, my favorite goalies in the entire league, I think he is extremely talented and it also helps he’s American. He is just on the West coast on a terrible team so he doesn’t get the love he deserves. Tonight he gets the Kings in Hollywood, and oddly enough Gibson has been great on the road in 2021. Gibson has averaged 17.5 DK points and 23 FD points per game in his last 9 away games this season. Another reason I love Gibby tonight is that LA loves to shoot the puck, and Anaheim loves to allow shots on goal. Gibson is averaging 32.6 saves per game in his last 5 and could easily hit the 35 save bonus on DK.
Other GPP Options: Mike Smith ($7,600/$8,100), Juuse Saros ($7,300/$7,600), Darcy Kuemper ($7,800/$6,800) – GREAT play on FD, a little price for DK.
NHL DFS: Slate Overview
Can the Stars shine through as a Hurricane bears down in Dallas?
Dallas’ top line projects to me as one of the lines with the safest floors as well as having an incredibly high ceiling. Now, like with last week when I wrote them up it is all reliant on Roope Hintz ($6,100/$6,400) deciding if he’s a hockey player or basketball player tonight. This top line is not overly expensive and will come in at low ownership because we have Edmonton, Colorado, Florida, and Winnipeg in great spots on this slate. Even Carolina on the other side of this matchup is in a great spot and makes this game an interesting game stack candidate to get off the chalkier Edm/Wpg game stack.
Desert Dogs swim in the shark tank
Arizona is one of my favorite teams on this slate outside of the chalk teams I’ve already mentioned. In four games against the Sharks this season, Arizona is 3-1 and has scored 4.25 goals per game against San Jose this season. My top line for the Yotes on this slate is the second line, namely Phil Kessel ($4,200/$5,700) and Christian Dvorak ($4,000/$4,200). You can throw Clayton Keller ($3,600/$5,500) in for a PP2 stack in place of Lawson Crouse if you have the salary. If you are playing the Coyotes tonight, you HAVE to play Jakob Chychrun ($6,500/$5,200). Chychrun is on the top PP unit, but he will see time with the 2nd line as well. I am warning you all now, if you show me lineups in discord and you DON’T have Chychrun with your Coyotes stacks I am going to tell you it’s a bad build!
Lets go clearance rack shopping!
There are so many pay-up spots tonight that we will need to find some value to make those top-line stacks work. Steven Lorentz ($2,500/$3,200) (as of this writing) is skating on the Hurricanes’ top line with Aho and Svechnikov. We have seen his TOI almost double from his season average of late to where he is playing over 11 minutes a game now and has 3 points in his last 5 games. Sam Bennett’s ($3,800/$3,700) price has slowly been rising as his production does. Florida2 is a borderline value-stack tonight but either way, I have a lot of interest in them tonight. Both of St. Louis’s first and second lines are on my radar tonight, especially since they are fighting for the playoff lives sitting on the outside looking in currently.
If you want to go with the Avs or Oilers tonight in large field or multi-entry GPP tournaments you can look to their secondary scoring. I really like the 2nd and 3rd lines for Colorado tonight as a pivot off the MacKinnon line. McDavid is now skating with Jesse Puljujarvi ($4,400/$3,800) and Dominik Kahun ($2,500/$3,400) which makes them a semi-value stack. I like the idea of pairing them with either Nurse or Barrie in GPP’s to get exposure to McDavid without paying his high salary and hoping he just nets two assists and each of his linemates score.
NHL DFS: Defensemen Rankings
** Remember to always try and pair your defenseman up with forwards. One-off dmen are not usually the best option**
Top Defensemen
- Jakob Chychrun (ARI)
- Dougie Hamilton (CAR)
- Cale Makar (COL)
- Darnell Nurse (EDM)
- Roman Josi (NSH)
- Thomas Chabot (OTT)
- Miro Heiskanen (DAL)
- Alex Edler (VAN)
- Ryan Ellis (NSH)
- Josh Morrissey (WPG)
Top Value Defensemen:
- Jaccob Slavin (CAR)
- Ilya Lyubushkin (ARI)
- Jamie Oleksiak (DAL)
- Patrik Nemeth (COL)
- Alex Goligoski (ARI)
- Artem Zub (OTT)
- Brett Pesce (CAR)
- Sami Vatanen (DAL)
- Jake Walman (STL)
- Gustav Forsling (FLA)
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