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Welcome to the NHL DFS Man Advantage for the 2021-22 season.
If you are new to my articles, NHL, or WinDaily Sports then I will tell you that my articles are not going to give you the chalk plays or the obvious plays. I try to dig in and find ways for you to build lineups for GPP contests. I will always point out those top plays to help you build cash but that is not the point of this article.
Another big Tuesday!
After two small slates on Monday, we are back with one big eight-game slate on Tuesday night. I hope everyone had a profitable day on Monday and hopefully we can keep that rolling into tonight’s slate!
We have six of the 16 teams on this slate on the back end of a back-to-back, including the Islander and Flyers who are playing the second of a home and home on Tuesday. Both Tampa and Florida are on the road out west and could bring some late-night fireworks with their potent offenses. The all of a sudden “red hot” Senators host a Sabres team who is coming off an overtime loss to the Red Wings on Monday. There is a lot to dissect in this slate, so let’s get at it!
NHL DFS: Goaltenders
After struggling throughout most of the season, Semyon Varlamov has seemingly turned it around in his last three starts. Varly had not achieved a score higher than 13.3 DKFP all season until his 12/16 start against Boston. That game Varlamov made 41 saves en route to a 3-1 Islanders victory and a 33.5 DKFP performance. The Islander veteran netminder is 2-1 in his last three starts scoring 33.5, 30.7, and 20.3 (his 1 loss) in those three games. We saw Sorkin dominant this same Flyers team last night and I see much of the same happening from Varlamov tonight.
When you look at Sergei Bobrovsky’s game logs this season it is like riding Expedition Everest in Disney World. His numbers go up and down all season. Bobrovsky and goal scoring machine that is the Florida Panthers take their show out west to Calgary, a team they just beat 6-2 two weeks ago. In that matchup in Florida, Bobrovsky stopped 47 of 49 shots on his way to having one of his best scores of the season, 34.9 DKFP. While I don’t know if we can expect that type of shot output from Calgary tonight, they are not scoring much of late and are extremely one-dimensional. Florida shut down the top line from Calgary, limiting them to just one goal in that game two weeks ago. With how hot this Panthers team is and with how the Flames have been struggling at converting, another win and 35+ bonus should be in the cards for Bob tonight.
Other Options: Andrei Vasilevskiy ( @ LA), Connor Hellebuyck ( @ Was) – Sneaky GPP play for me. The saves will be there and Washington is beatable at home, Cal Petersen ( vs TB), Jake Oettinger ( vs Mtl) – Cash game lock at home against Montreal on a back-to-back who got demolished by Arizona on Monday, Frederick Andersen ( @ Bos)
NHL DFS: Slate Overview
Teams to build around:
I am sure it will surprise no one when I say that my top team to build around is the…
Florida Panthers
I don’t care how good defensively the Flames have been this season, no team can stop this juggernaut right now. Will their run of offensive dominance come to an end at some point, I don’t know that it will honestly. This Panthers team is doing things that the Edmonton Oilers of the early ’80s would perk up and take a look at. In their last nine games, Florida has scored 4+ goals in EVERY SINGLE ONE. In most games, they have scored well above four including two games where they scored 6, one 7 goal game, and TWO games with nine goals scored. This team is averaging seven goals per game in their last three, these stats are just mind-blowing for an NHL team in 21-22.
I don’t have enough time and space to go over all their accomplishments in this stretch, but for me, all three of the Panthers’ top lines are in play. Hell, even their fourth line has been contributing. I will probably have Panthers stacks of some kind in every lineup I build on Tuesday and if they take me down with a poor performance, so be it. I would rather go down with a hot team that could win someone a GPP than take a chance fading and still lose anyway. If I had to pick one line from this team to build around for those playing just a single lineup, it would be the Panthers’ second line. Anthony Duclair has seven points in his last five games including four goals and Jonathan Huberdeau is averaging over two points per game in his last five with four goals and seven assists in that time. Aaron Ekblad is priced down on this slate at $6,500 on DK, so he is a lock for most Panthers stacks for me with a goal and eight assists in his last five. MacKenzie Weegar and Brandon Montour are also in play on defense for the Panthers.
Vancouver Canucks
If the Florida Panthers were the expected team to stack, then the Vancouver Canucks are a team I bet you’d never guess I’d be interested in. Vancouver will not break the bank on this slate on the road in Nashville on Tuesday with JT Miller being their highest-priced skater on DK at just $5,500. Quinn Hughes is next at $5,100 and everyone else is under $5K. There are a lot of teams on this slate that people will flock to, and if we want to balance out the potential chalk in Florida, the Canucks are a good way to do that.
It should be David Rittich in net for the Predators who are on the second leg of a back-to-back after Saros got beat up by St. Louis for five goals on Monday. Rittich has been bad for Nashville this season, in six appearances he has a .884 save % and is allowing nearly 3 goals per game (17 goals allowed in six games). Both of the Canucks top two lines will be good low priced stacks. My preference would probably be line 2 with the aforementioned Miller centering Brock Boeser and Tanner Pearson. On defense, it’s Hughes as the top pick, but also Tucker Poolman has been playing well of late and is min price on DK. Oliver Ekman-Larsson has also been picking up some shots on goal and blocked shots of late and makes for a decent option tonight.
This is also a game that I can see stacking, especially the Predators’ power-play units. Vancouver is dead last in the league in PK % and Nashville is a top 5 power-play. Don’t forget, it’s Tuesday and on Tuesday’s we play Forsberg!
Best of the rest!
Tampa Bay L1 and L2 – We saw what San Jose did to the Kings on Monday, and while I don’t expect 6 goals, we can’t rule it out. Dmen to use: Victor Hedman, Mikhail Sergachev
Boston L1 and L2: Boston has been red hot of late winning five straight and have scored 24 goals in those five games. It would appear that the David Pastrnak on L2 experiment is working so I would expect him to stay there for the time being. Craig Smith has two goals and two assists in his last four skating with the top line. Dmen to use: Charlie McAvoy, Mike Reilly
Ottawa L1 (Batherson-Norris-Tkachuk) – Buffalo on a back-to-back and a line that has been clicking all season, yes, please! Dmen to use: Thomas Chabot, Artem Zub, Erik Brannstrom
Dallas L1: (Pavelski-Hintz-Kiviranta) – Pay attention to the news today to see if we get a new linemate for Hintz and Pavelski. If not, Kivi is a min price option that makes this stack playable against Montreal. Dmen to use: Esa Lindell, Ryan Suter
Buffalo 2 (Skinner-Thompson-Tuch) – Dmen to use: Dahlin, Jokiharju
Value stack quick hits:
Los Angeles 2 ( Moore-Danault-Arvidsson) – Dmen to use: Doughty, Roy
Philadelphia 2 (Lindblom-Laughton-Konecny) – Dmen to use: Ristolainen, York
Nashville 3 (Trenin-Sisson-Jeannot) – Dmen to use: Josi, Carrier
Buffalo 1 (Hinostroza-Cozens-Okposo) – Dmen to use: Dahlin, Jokiharju
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