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Welcome to the NHL DFS Man Advantage for Wednesday night March 10th! Tonight we have a 5 game slate that is practically a carbon copy of the slate we saw on Monday night.
When we have slates like this, repeats of the same from two nights previous, I like to look back and see if there is anything that stands out. What I see is that Anaheim and Los Angeles played a high-scoring old-school game, which is not the norm for these teams so we shouldn’t expect this again tonight. We also saw Vegas get shutout and that has only happened once this season so it is also unlikely to happen again. Lastly, we saw Connor McDavid ($9,300/$8,800) have a multi-point game, which we CAN expect again seeing as he has done that 13 times this season already.
NHL DFS: Goaltenders
Carey Price ($7,800/$7,700)
Price is my top option tonight and he works on both sites and in both cash and GPP games as well. Vancouver may have beaten the Canadiens on Monday night but they didn’t do it with offense. Price stopped 28 of 29 shots and lost 2-1 in a shootout. Over their last 10 games, Vancouver is allowing over 30 saves P/G, scoring just over 2 goals P/G, and allowing opposing goaltenders to score over 20 FP P/G. If Jake Allen ($7,600/$7,700) starts tonight he is just as good of an option as Price.
Los Angeles Kings @ Anaheim Ducks
Even though both goalies from the Ducks and Kings game got lit up like the Rockefeller Christmas tree on Monday night I am going right back to the well with this game and the goaltenders. I am going to guess we see Cal Petersen ($7,500/$7,200) and John Gibson ($7,500/$6,700) in the net for their respective teams tonight. Both have been good fantasy options, especially Gibson at his extremely low price on FanDuel. I am not afraid to go back to these goalies, and neither should you.
Other Options: Marc-Andre Fleury ($8,100/$8,500), Philip Grubauer ($8,200/$8,300), Mikko Koskinen ($8,300/$8,000), Kappo Kahkonen ($7,400/7,500)
NHL DFS: Slate Overview
Even on a small late like we have tonight we still have some big names to use. I already mentioned McDavid, but that also means we have Leon Draisaitl ($8,100/$7,900) on the slate. Draisaitl has been cold of late for his standards and hasn’t had a multi-point game since 2/23 against Vancouver. This season in five games against Ottawa, the reigning league MVP has 3 goals, 7 assists, 13 shots on goal, and is averaging over 17 fantasy points per game, so maybe Wednesday is the night Draisaitl gets out of this “slump”. Nathan MacKinnon ($8,700/$8,300) should be returning for the Avs tonight and might be the lower owned of the studs tonight. I love playing the Vegas top line, but I believe Max Pacioretty ($8,200/$8,100) is a little overpriced tonight and I may shy away from using him in any Vegas stacks.
Stacking Options:
Obviously, both the top lines from Edmonton and Colorado are in play whenever they are on a slate, and the same generally goes for Vegas. We need to wait and see if Mark Stone ($6,100/$7,400) is back for Vegas, but like I said I don’t think I want a Vegas 1 stack tonight.
One of my favorite stacks tonight is once again Montreal Canadiens 3. We saw them get shut down by Vancouver on Monday, and while the Canucks have been good defensively of late during their 3 game win streak, that is not their specialty. I know eventually the Canucks will turn back into a pumpkin and give up a 4 or 5 spot, so why not tonight. Tyler Toffoli ($7,000/$6,600) has torched the Canucks this season to the tune of 8 goals, 3 assists, and 29 shots on goal in 6 games. Vancouver boasts the league’s worst penalty kill, allows the most penalties, and is 30th in the league in goals against. I am going back to the well again tonight with the Canadiens stack.(Josh Anderson ($5,500/$4,800)/Jesperi Kotkaniemi ($3,400/$3,900)
If you don’t think Fleury has a good night, or the Golden Knights decide to go with their backup the Minnesota Wild have a couple of good lines to look at. Most people will flock to their top line, and while I still believe in them, it’s their new second line that has been getting it done (and they are cheap!). The combination of Jordan Greenway ($3,200/$4,200)/Joel Eriksson Ek ($5,000/$4,700)/Marcus Foligno ($3,300/$3,700) has been on fire over their last five games.
Outside of the lines mentioned above, here a couple more line stacks I am interested in:
- Edmonton 2
- Los Angeles 1
- Vancouver 2
Value Stack Options:
- Ottawa 3
- Anaheim 2 and 3
- Vegas 2 (borderline value)
NHL DFS: Defensemen Rankings
Top Defensemen
- Darnell Nurse (EDM)
- Jeff Petry (MTL)
- Tyson Barrie (EDM)
- Jakob Chychrun (ARI)
- Thomas Chabot (OTT)
- Jonas Brodin (MIN)
- Shea Theodore (VGK)
- Samuel Girard (COL)
- Alex Edler (VAN)
Top Value Defensemen:
- Nicolas Hague (VGK)
- Kris Russell (EDM)
- Travis Hamonic (VAN)
- Kevin Shattenkirk (ANH)
- Erik Brannstrom (OTT)
- Sean Walker (LA)
- Artem Zub (OTT)
- Oliver Ekman-Larsson (DK value only)
- Niklas Hjalmarsson (ARI)
- Nikita Zaitsev (OTT)
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