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Welcome to the NHL DFS Man Advantage for Wednesday night February 24th and we have a five-game slate on tap!
Wednesday’s slate is practically a repeat of the slate we broke down for Monday night, but there are some differences. Toronto is still the highest projected scoring team on the slate. Their lineup isn’t ideal right now after a rash of injuries, but Auston Matthews ($9,000/$9,300) is still the hottest player in the NHL. Matthews is coming off one of his first bad games on the season and is due for a bounce-back game. On the other side of the ice from the Leafs is the Flames again, and if Frederick Andersen ($8,200/$8,700) is out and Hutchinson has to play then the Flames and Matthew Tkachuk ($6,100/$5,600) are a top play as well. Something to monitor on Wednesday is the status of the Rangers/Flyers game. There was some talk that this game could be postponed because of the Artemi Panarin situation, make sure you are in the discord for updates regarding that game
NHL DFS: Goaltenders
FanDuel’s utter disrespect for Jordan Binnington ($7,600) continues on Wednesday night. They did price him up a couple hundred from Monday but still it is just too easy to play him. I will personally be playing a stack of Los Angeles Kings against Binnington, and I will explain why later, but if you play FanDuel, not playing Binner is hard than playing him is.
As for DraftKings, I will once again be fading the top options in both Binnington ($8,300) and Philipp Grubauer ($8,500). They are both good options, with apparent easy games, but at those prices and against teams that are actually playing really well right now, I will take my chances elsewhere. As long as the Rangers/Flyers game is played, Carter Hart ($7,800/$7,900) against a Rangers team without their best player is my top option. Hart is coming off a bad game in Lake Tahoe against Boston, but before that Hart went 3-0-2 with 30.8 saves per game in his last 5 starts.
Other options: Darcy Kuemper ($8,000/$8,200), John Gibson ($7,400/$6,700), Calvin Petersen ($6,900)
NHL DFS: Slate Overview
Like on Monday night, Calgary/Toronto is the highest projected game, but you already know what we are looking at that for that game, so onto something different for Wednesday. Colorado is at home for Minnesota in what I think could be a high scoring game. Unfortunately, Colorado has decided to split up their top line recently and makes them a difficult team to stack. Luckily, they left the top power play unit in tact so we can stack that unit. If you want to make an Av’s stack obviously Nathan MacKinnon ($8,800/$8,600) is where you have to start. Both Mikko Rantanen ($7,300/$7,700) and Andre Burakovsky ($4,200/$4,500) play with Mac on the top line but you can replace Burakovsky with Gabriel Landeskog ($6,000/$6,300) or Cale Makar ($6,300/$6,000).
Kirill Kaprizov – Victor Rask – Mats Zuccarello
On the other side of this game, the Wild helped us to cash on Monday and we are going right back to them on Wednesday. Minnesota’s second line has been fire recently and we will use them as the top value line to pair with Colorado or Toronto. This 3 man line stack costs a combined $11K on Dk and $14.1K on FD.
Somewhat under the radar the Los Angeles Kings have been on an absolute tear. Over their last five games the Kings have gone 5-0-0 with 20 goals scored and just 6 goals allowed. They are coming of a 3-0 victory over the Blues on Monday where Dustin Brown ($4,800/$6,100) picked up 2 goals. LA’s top line is where I want to start if you have the salary, which features Brown, Anze Kopitar ($6,000/$7,400) and Alex Iafallo ($4,700/$4,900). If you need to use the Kings as a value stack their second line of Jeff Carter ($4,400), Gabriel Vilardi ($3,400/$3,300), and Adrian Kempe ($4,100/$4,400). On the point both Drew Doughty ($5,700/$6,300) and Mikey Anderson ($2,800/$3,800) are in play as well.
NHL DFS: Defensemen Rankings
Top Defensemen
- Ivan Provorov
- Cale Makar
- Drew Doughty
- Morgan Rielly
- Adam Fox
- Jacob Chychrun
- Devon Toews
- Justin Faulk
- Rasmus Andersson
- Matt Dumba
Top Value Defensemen:
- Mikey Anderson
- K’Andre Miller
- Cam Fowler
- Ryan Graves
- Jared Spurgeon
- Travis Sanheim
- Juuso Valimaki
- Josh Mahura
- Anthony Bitetto
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