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Wednesday brings us a tiny little two game slate, as Win Daily Sports takes you Between the Benches for our NHL DFS picks. Two games means this will be a very volatile slate, about as volatile as it can get. If you are playing, the best approach here is to pair the best plays with something off the wall. Either the chalk will crush and sink you, or you can have a great night if your off the wall plays happen to hit. Good luck!
Goalies
Instead of listing favorite goalies as we usually do in this section, we will rank them by their goals against average. It is best to just correlate your goalies with your main stacks tonight and hope for the best. Goalies tonight are very sketchy.
Ilya Samsonov – Toronto Maple Leafs: 2.35 GAA is the lowest on the slate, facing a Philly team that just went to OT in New York last night.
Casey DeSmith – Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.97 GAA and he will draw the start, as the Penguins are back-to-back tonight.
Felix Sandstrom – Philadelphia Flyers: As mentioned, the Flyers are on the back end of a traveling back-to-back, so Sandstrom should start. He has a 3.14 GAA, and is definitely no Carter Hart.
Eric Comrie – Buffalo Sabres: The worst GAA on the slate, he is sporting a 3.34 and facing a Pittsburgh team who can score from anywhere. However, they did travel to Buffalo after hosting the Bruins in a slugfest last night.
Lines to Build Around
These NHL DFS lines are considered top plays for the night and can be considered the focal point of your builds. They will be listed by position in the following order: Center/Winger/Winger/Correlating Defenseman (if applicable).
Toronto Maple Leafs Power Play – Auston Matthews/John Tavares/William Nylander/Mitch Marner/Morgan Rielly: It’s the obvious play on the board, with the Leafs facing the Flyers on home ice against their backup goalie. There should be a lot of scoring from this unit tonight. On a short slate, power play looks tend to be successful, since you get access to multiple lines. They only edge out the Penguins because the Pens played last night and traveled.
Pittsburgh Penguins Power Play – Sidney Crosby/Evgenii Malkin/Jake Guentzel/Bryan Rust/Jeff Petry: Petry joining this unit makes him a very solid play on D tonight. This unit should have some success against the Sabres, who people may chase after their 8 goal explosion against the Red Wings a couple of nights ago.
High Risk Lines
These are NHL DFS plays that carry significantly more risk, but could pay off at low ownership. They will be listed by position in the following order: Center/Winger/Winger/Correlating Defenseman (if applicable).
Buffalo Sabres Power Play – Tage Thompson/Jeff Skinner/Alex Tuch/Jack Quinn/Rasmus Dahlin: The Sabres power play is definitely in play tonight, as they come into the game with the 12th ranked unit. The Pens have the 27th ranked PK, so there is a chance we could see some scoring from these guys. If stacking the power play, Tuch is almost a must, and mix and match the others.
Toronto Maple Leafs 3 – Pontus Holmberg/Calle Jarnkrok/Pierre Engvall: This line is in a fantastic spot against the top line for the Flyers. Everyone should be flocking to the top line, so get yourself some of this third line to be different, with a chance at upside.
Pittsburgh Penguins 3 – Drew O’Connor/Kasperi Kapanen/Danton Heinen: This is a similar spot to the Leafs’ third line, and will definitely be different. Kapanen/Heinen make a nice pair if you want to limit the exposure.
NHL DFS Honorable Mentions: PHI1, TOR2, PIT2, BUF4
Value Options – DraftKings
Consider these NHL DFS plays to help save you some salary in your lineups on DraftKings. Be sure to stack!
Center: Casey Mittelstadt ($2900) – Buffalo Sabres
Wing: Alexander Kerfoot ($2900) – Toronto Maple Leafs
Defense: Marcus Pettersson ($3000) – Pittsburgh Penguins
Value Options – FanDuel
Consider these NHL DFS plays to help save you some salary in your lineups on FanDuel. Be sure to stack!
Center: Casey Mittelstadt ($4600) – Buffalo Sabres
Wing: Pierre Engvall ($3800) – Toronto Maple Leafs
Defense: Brian Dumoulin ($3900) – Pittsburgh Penguins
Player Props
In this section, we will highlight some NHL player props that we like for the upcoming NHL slate.
Sidney Crosby (PIT): over 3.5 shots on goal (+130 on DK Sportsbook)
Alexander Kerfoot (TOR): anytime goal scorer (+240 on DK Sportsbook)
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