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Welcome to the NHL DFS Man Advantage for Monday night February 1st and we have a 5 game slate on tap!
Tonight should be another high scoring night in the NHL with 7 of the 10 teams projected to score over 3 goals. Only Vancouver, Washington, and Nashville to score under 3 but with both Washington and Vancouver ranked 1st and 4th respectively in goals for this season I don’t have a problem looking at them for my lineups tonight as well.
Montreal vs Vancouver and NY Rangers vs Pittsburgh seem to be the spots that will have the highest goal totals tonight and where I want to focus on first when building lineups tonight. Winnipeg vs Calgary is another game with a high projected goal total, but both teams ranked towards the top of the league in goals against, but Winnipeg does rank tenth in the league in goals for.
NHL DFS: Goaltenders
Connor Hellebuyck ($7,900/$8,400)
Like I mentioned in the open this game has a projected goal total over 6 tonight but I think this game goes under tonight and Hellebuyck is a good reason why. Helley is one of the league’s best goalies and the matchup with the Flames is a good one tonight. Calgary is one of the worst 5 of 5 teams in the NHL with a 4.7% shot percentage at even strength and the Jets do not take penalties. Winnipeg averages less than 3 penalties a game, so Calgary should have a tough time scoring tonight against Hellebuyck and the Jets.
Other Options: Vasilevskiy (TB), Vanecek (WAS), Markstrom (CGY), Price (MTL)
NHL DFS: Forwards
Top Overall Center:
Patrice Bergeron ($7,800 on both sites)
I know, I know this is a really tough pick to say one of the best overall centers in the game is a top play today but the new B’s captain has been on fire of late and it should continue tonight. Bergeron has 4 goals and 4 assists in his last four games with all of those games being multi-point games. Along with putting up points, Bergeron is averaging 4 shots on goal per game and is averaging huge FPPG (23.1 on DK and 27.7 on FD). Boston also got David Pastrnak ($7,800/$7,500) back last game to complete one of hockey’s best lines along with Brad Marchand ($7,700/$8,200) making them also my favorite overall line stack tonight.
Other Options: Point (TB), Scheifele (WPG), Zibanejad (NYR), Crosby (PIT), Backstrom (WAS), Pettersson (VAN), Suzuki (MTL), Horvat (VAN), Malkin (PIT)
Top Value Centers:
DraftKings Value Center: Ryan Strome (NYR) – $4,000
FanDuel Value Center: Adam Lowry (WPG) – $4,200
Other Options: Kotkaniemi (MTL), Blueger (PIT), Danault (MTL), Backlund (CGY), Coyle (BOS)
Top Overall Winger:
Andrew Copp ($5,500/$4,700)
There are plenty of other great plays at this position tonight, but I wanted to put a spotlight on Copp because of how well he has been performing of late. In the Jets last 5 games, Copp has been averaging over a point P/game (2 goals, 4 assists), 5 shots on goal per game, and playing near 20 minutes per game while not playing on the power play. Copp was moved up to the Jets top line today with Mark Scheifele ($7,200/$7,600) and Nikolaj Ehlers ($6,100/$6,600) which is a good contrarian stack on a small slate tonight
Other Options: Boeser (VAN) Arvidsson (NSH), Stamkos (TB), Forsberg (NSH), Ovechkin (WAS), Connor (WPG), Toffoli (MTL), Panarin (NYR), Miller (VAN), Gaudreau (CGY), Gallagher (MTL), Rust (PIT)
Top Value Wingers:
DraftKings Value Winger: Kasperi Kapanen & Jason Zucker (PIT) – $3,100/$3,300
FanDuel Value Winger: Nils Hoglander (VAN) – $3,900
Other Options: Lucic (CGY), Coleman (TB), Smith (BOS), Panik (WAS), Granlund (NSH), Ritchie (BOS)
NHL DFS: Defensemen Rankings
Top Defensemen
- Roman Jose (NSH)
- Victor Hedman (TB)
- John Carlson (WAS)
- Adam Fox (NYR)
- Ryan Ellis (NSH)
- Charlie McAvoy (BOS)
- Rasmus Andersson (CGY)
- Alex Edler (VAN)
- Jeff Petry (MTL)
- Shea Weber (MTL)
Top Value Defensemen
- Juuso Valimaki (CGY)
- K’Andre Miller (NYR)
- Joel Edmundson (MTL)
- Christopher Tanev (CGY)
- P.O. Joseph (PIT)
- Zdeno Chara (WAS)
- Jacon Trouba (NYR)
- Ryan McDonagh (TB)
- Brandon Carlo (BOS)
- Callen Foote (TB)
NHL DFS: Line Stacks
Top Line Stack:
Vancouver Canucks Line 1
JT Miller ($5,400/$6,900) – Elias Pettersson ($6,200/$6,700) – Brock Boeser ($5,800/$6,800)
Top Value stack:
Montreal Canadiens Line 3
Tyler Toffoli ($5,900/$6,000) – Jesperi Kotkaniemi ($3,500/$4,500) – Corey Perry ($2,700/$3,400)
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