NHL DFS Man Advantage for DraftKings and FanDuel (Apr. 5)

Welcome to the NHL DFS Man Advantage for a Monday night! We have a 7 game slate tonight that looks like it could be a lot of fun with a variety of ways to build.

Tonight is another seven-game slate, which seems to be a very common thing in the NHL this season. Three of tonight’s seven games are from the high-scoring North (Canadian) Division and those three games are spots I want to try and focus on for my lineups. Boston, who just dropped 7 on Pittsburgh in their last game, is taking on a Philadelphia team that has been dreadful defensively of late as well.

NHL DFS: Goaltenders

Cash Game Goalie:

Robin Lehner ($8,000/$8,200) vs St. Louis

Since his return from a concussion on March 19th, Lehner has been a virtual brick wall stopping 107 of 113 shots he’s faced. Lehner gets a matchup with the Blues tonight who are an abysmal 2-7-4 since March 6th and are averaging just 1.9 goals per game during this stretch. Lehner’s price isn’t overly high on either site and he just make sense as a safe cash play.

Other Cash Options: Philipp Grubauer ($8,100/$8,600) vs Minnesota, Connor Hellebuyck ($8,500/$7,500) vs Ottawa — How do you not play him on FD?

GPP Goalie:

Cam Talbot ($7,200/$8,400) vs Colorado

Talbot is more of a DK play at this price, but either way the man has been on fire since he has returned from injury as well. In his last five starts, Talbot has averaged 32.6 saves per game and allowed just 1.6 goals per game. I know Colorado is the top scoring team in the league, but a hot goalie can shut a hot offense down on any night. Over their last 10 games Colorado has averaged 38.6 shots on goal per game, which is one of the reasons why I like Talbot tonight. Colorado will shoot the puck and Talbot will have plenty of save opportunities. In their last two matchups Colorado took 55 and 42 shots on goal respectively.

Other GPP Options: Jack Campbell ($7,900/$8,100) vs Calgary, Mike Smith ($7,400) vs Montreal, Filip Gustavsson ($7,000/$6,600) vs Winnipeg

NHL DFS: Line Stacks

Boston Bruins

As I mentioned in the open Boston takes on the Flyers tonight who have been terrible in their own zone of late. Boston has (at the time of writing) switched up their lines by moving David Pastrnak ($8,900/$8,300) off the top line and onto line 2. I prefer line 2 from Boston tonight as a stacking option with David Krejci ($4,200/$5,200) and Nick Ritchie ($4,200/$4,400). Pasta is still on the top power play unit with Ritchie so using them with Matt Grzelcyk ($4,80/$4,300) is also a great way to go.

Winnipeg Jets

Winnipeg is at home to Ottawa tonight and should be one of the better options in fantasy tonight. Ottawa is one of the worst teams defensively this season and has been even worse of late. They have had some really good goaltending which makes them see better than they have been though. In their last 5 games, Ottawa has only allowed 12 goals, but they have allowed at least 53 shot attempts in all 5 games, and even allowed as many as 66 to the Leafs a few games back. My preferred line tonight would be their top line Kyle Connor-Mark Scheifele-Nikolaj Ehlers ($20.5K/$20K). Ottawa has been good on the penalty kill, allowing just 1 power-play goal in their last 8 games, so I wouldn’t try and get weird with different power-play stacks here.

Minnesota Wild

Both sides of this game have upside, as do both goalies, but if you are playing GPP’s and Talbot why not run a Wild stack with him. Minnesota’s top line is inexpensive industry-wide and is one of the highest projected scoring lines in my opinion tonight. Kirill Kaprizov ($6,100/$6,000) is the highest-priced player on this line tonight and to me seems like a bargain at his salary. He is playing alongside Jordan Greenway ($3,100/$3,700) who has 3 assists in his last four games, including setting up Joel Eriksson Ek ($4,100/$3,800) for the game-winner on Saturday night. Eriksson himself has 3 points in his last 4 games also. Colorado has allowed 3 power-play goals in their last 5 games and has averaged 4 penalties per game. Because of this I also like pairing Karpizov with Jared Spurgeon ($4,100/$4,400) for a two-man PP stack.

Cash game Line stacks:

Both Toronto and Edmonton’s top lines are the best options for cash game builds. Of course, they are expensive but have the safest floors on the slate. After those two lines, Colorado’s first line, and then Vegas would be the next best options. All of these lines are good plays in any type of contest, but they will most likely carry the highest ownership.

As for some value to pair with those expensive lines for cash (or GPP really), you can look at both Calgary 3 and Philadelphia 2. Both lines are cheap and carry a relatively safe floor. Montreal 1 and Montreal 3 are two other lower-priced options that have pretty safe floors as well. Similar to Montreal, Los Angeles’ first and third lines are good value tonight taking on a Coyotes team who is on the second night of a back-to-back.

NHL DFS: Defensemen Rankings

** Remember to always try and pair your defenseman up with forwards. One-off dmen are not usually the best option**

Top Defensemen

1. Jakob Chychrun (ARI)
2. Alex Pietrangelo (VGK)
3. Darnell Nurse (EDM)
4. Ivan Provorov (PHI)
5. Shea Theodore (VGK)
6. Shea Weber (MTL)
7. Cale Makar (COL)
8. Drew Doughty (LA)
9. Morgan Rielly (TOR)
10. Matt Grzelcyk (BOS)

Top Value Defensemen:

1. Noah Hanifin (CGY)
2. Sean Walker (LA)
3. Joel Edmundson (MTL)
4. Michael Stone (CGY)
5. Alex Goligoski (ARI)
6. Brayden McNabb (VGK)
7. TJ Brodie (TOR)
8. Vince Dunn (STL)
9. Ilya Lyubushkin (ARI)
10. Austin Strand (LA)

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