Welcome to Win Daily’s fourth edition of the NHL Between the Benches! In this article, the 8/15 NHL Between the Benches, we will look at the top NHL stacks on the slate, rank the best and the worst goalie spots to target and provide a core four that you can use to start building your lines! There are only three games for tonight’s main slate of the play-in series, check out the top plays below.
8/15 NHL Stack Report
- Carolina Hurricanes Two
Svechnikov – Trocheck – Necas (FanDuel: $15,500 | DraftKings: $–,—)
– After having a relatively silent first game coming out of the play-in round, Carolina’s second line participated in every goal in their last matchup against the Bruins en route to a 3-2 win to tie the series and as it looks right now Hamilton has returned to form for a bargain price. With Pasta out of today’s game, Boston will have a harder time shutting down this powerful line. Not to mention that Svechnikov is proving how vital he is to Carolina’s offence with four goals and three assists in just five playoff games. FD Only!!!
Ideal Defensive Partner: Dougie Hamilton (FD: $5,800 | DK: $-,—) - Vegas Golden Knights Two
Marchessault – Statsny – Smith (FanDuel: $16,800 | DraftKings: $16,000)
– This line has retained some incredible consistency throughout the postseason and considering Patches may not play tonight it will be important for this line to take it to the Chicago Blackhawks yet again. Furthermore, they have remained affordable despite their success and will be facing off against a cold goalie in Crawford. On top of that, all three will see power-play time with Marchessault and Statsny on the top PP unit and Smith on the second PP unit.
Ideal Defensive Partner: Alec Martinez (FD: $4,100 | DK: $4,600)
Honorable Mention(s): Tampa Bay Lightning Two – McDonagh, Colorado Avalanche One – Graves (Use COL1 for DK)
8/15 NHL Goalie Tracker
Best
- Pavel Francouz (FD: $7,000 | DK: $7,900)
- Robin Lehner(FD: $8,600 | DK: $8,400)
Honorable Mention(s): Andrei Vasilevskiy, Petr Mrazek
Worst
- Corey Crawford (FD: $7,300|DK: $7,300)
- Darcy Kuemper (FD: $7,400 | DK: $7,100)
8/15 NHL Wild Card of the Day
Alex Tuch (FD: $4,000 | DK: $3,900)
– Despite not getting started in this round, tonight’s game against the Blackhawks provides a perfect opportunity for Tuch to regain the strong form he had coming into the play-in round, of course, it is a risk given his cold start to the postseason but in a GPP format he works well in as an offline stack with Reilly Smith and Alec Martinez.
Core Four:
C – Paul Statsny
W – Reilly Smith
W – Andrei Svechnikov
D – Dougie Hamilton
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Svechnikov-Marchessault-MacKinnon – Putting Up Points – Svech will see a huge bump in minutes, especially if the game against the Bruins remains close and he has recorded points in 4 of his last 5 games. MacKinnon is a beast and although he may not always reach his expected FanDuel value he is consistently been reliable for a point or two with points in every playoff game to this point. Marchessault himself has put up six points in his last three games and is one of the hottest players in hockey right now, coming up against a cold goalie in Crawford.
Honorable Mention: Jonathan Marchessault to break the expected fantasy point total.
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