Allan Fabrykant Hello everyone and welcome to the newest edition of WinDaily’s Wednesday Night Between the Benches Article. Lots of great options available on tonight’s small four-gamer! For tonight’s 3/23 NHL slate, the first puck drops at 7:00 pm ET. Don’t forget to lock your lines and check the discord for any updates! Let’s get into it!
3/23 NHL Stack Report
1. Pittsburgh Penguins 1
Guentzel – Crosby – Rodrigues (FanDuel: $21,800 | DraftKings: $20,600)
– This slate has three deep mismatches on paper and one close contest. The mismatch between Toronto and New Jersey is a bit different than the two in front of us but we will touch on that in the Wild Card section. The two mismatches leading our stack report is much more straightforward. Pittsburgh’s whole top line is the more affordable of the two lines in the stack report and they have been playing supremely well leading up to tonight’s matchup against the fledgling Buffalo Sabres. Both teams in this matchup are on small winning streaks but Pittsburgh’s success has been more sustained throughout the season compared to Buffalo and Pittsburgh has been regularly demolishing teams, scoring 4 or 5 goals regularly in their winning efforts. This line in particular has put together 10 points over their last two games (4 G, 6 A). That’s an insane pace and with Buffalo’s defensive struggles that have seen them near the bottom of the league in Goals Allowed, Shots on Goal allowed and Penalty Kill %, I think that Pittsburgh’s top line is in a prime position to tear apart the Buffalo Sabres blue line tonight.
Ideal Defensive Partner(s): Kris Letang (Brian Doumolin works as a Salary Saver) (FD: $6,400 | DK: $6,800)
2. Colorado Avalanche 1
Nichushkin – MacKinnon – Rantanen (FanDuel: $25,400 | DraftKings: $20,700)
– We’re unsurprisingly back to what has consistently been one of the best lines in hockey for the past few seasons now. Tonight, they’re up against a very unimpressive defense in the Vancouver Canucks and as such the Avalanche are currently given a 4.1 implied total from the Vegas Oddsmakers. Vancouver’s penalty kill has been particularly bad as they sit at dead last with a 71.3% penalty kill rate, a horrible stat to have against the Aves who’s powerplay currently sits at fourth in the entire league at 24.8%. Luckily for us all three members of Colorado’s top line, including Cale Makar appear on Colorado’s top power play unit and will be seeing the most power play time for Colorado tonight. It’s also important to note that Colorado currently sits second in the league in goals per game with 3.83 and the Aves are currently on a four-game winning streak, whereas the Canucks are on a three game skid. I only see this game ending with a convincing victory for the Aves and I recommend having some exposure to them in your lines tonight.
Ideal Defensive Partner(s): Cale Makar (Devon Toews works as a Salary Saver) (FD: $7,100 | DK: $6,600)
Honorable Mentions in order: NJD1 (Sharangovich-Hughes-Mercer), TOR1 (Marner-Matthews-Bunting), PIT 3 (Rackell-Carter-Kapanen)
BOOKIE BET OF THE NIGHT: OVER 6 PIT/BUF
Honorable Mention(s): Auston Matthews Anytime Goalscorer -150
3/23 NHL Goalie Tracker
Best (Goalies to Roster)
- Darcy Kuemper (FD: $8,300 | DK: $8,300)
- Casey DeSmith (FD: $8,400 | DK: $8,200)
Honorable Mention(s): Kevin Lankinen
Worst (Goalies to Target)
- Craig Anderson (FD: $7,000 | DK: $7,200)
Honorable Mention(s): Nico Daws, Petr Mrazek
3/23 NHL Wild Card Targets
Yegor Sharangovich (FD: $5,500 | DK: $3,700)
– It may seem a little counterintuitive to list a winger on a team that is a +260 underdog as our wild card play of the day but realistically there are a few points that we need to take into account when assessing this play. 1) Sharangovich has gone absolutely gangbusters as of late with five points over his last five games (2 G, 3 A) 2) He is an affordable top liner who sees around 16-19 minutes of ice time a game, including time on the Second power play unit 3) The Leafs have been ABYSMAL as heavy favorites this season. I don’t have the faintest idea as to why but they cannot seem to convert whenever the bookies have them as a -300 favorite or greater (tonight the Leafs are -325) 4) The Leafs are starting Petr Mrazek, a goalie who was recently put on and cleared waivers based on how bad he’s been playing and his presence between the pipes for the Leafs tonight has ballooned the O/U for tonight’s game at an even 7.0. Even though New Jersey’s current O/U is set at 2.6, I truly believe they shouldn’t have a problem putting at least three by Mrazek tonight. Sharangovich works really well with his Centre Jack Hughes and even though the Leafs have defensive struggles their offense is still a juggernaut so don’t take this write up as me saying they are going to lose tonight or that their offense wont break the slate because they very well might. !!Do not overlook the Leafs top line!!
Honorable Mention(s): Rickard Rackell, Mark Giordano, Michael Bunting, Dylan Strome, Conor Garland
Core Four: (ALWAYS BE STACKIN’)
Centre – Auston Matthews
Winger – Yegor Sharangovich
Defence – Kris Letang
Goalie – Darcy Kuemper
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All Day (Putting Up Points)
Honorable Mention(s): All-Day Rapidfire 3/3
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