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Welcome to the NHL DFS Man Advantage for Monday night March 1st! Tonight is a big slate with 7 games on the schedule, and for a change we have a back loaded schedule with four games at 10pm eastern or later!

Monday’s slate features some of the league’s top players, but one player we are still waiting for information on his status is Auston Matthews ($9,000). Matthews missed Saturday’s game with Edmonton and while he did practice Sunday, he skated with the extra players and did not take any hard shots. It looks like, as of Sunday night, that Matthews is trending in the wrong direction and won’t be available for Monday’s game either. I will of course have updates on his status in discord on Monday though.

Monday night’s slate is shaping up to be a very high scoring slate with Vegas having four of the seven games with 6.5 over/under totals. There are two games I am most interested in though, Florida @ Carolina and Colorado @ San Jose.

NHL DFS: Goaltenders

There are two goaltenders that stand out to me on this slate as top options and both are from the same game, St. Louis at Anaheim. Assuming both team’s number one goalies start we should see John Gibson ($7,300/$6,900) and Jordan Binnington ($8,000/$7,500) in net, that is if Binnington isn’t out there pretending to punch players and getting into fights with the opposing goalie again. Bininngton is actually priced in a spot on DraftKings where I feel comfortable to play him tonight and Gibson is ALWAYS in play for me.

After Binnington and Gibson, Connor Hellebuyck ($8,200 on both sites) is my next option in net. Hellebuyck has won three straight starts for Winnipeg and four of five. If you think Ottawa’s offense regresses some Monday (4 goals per game average in their last 5) then you could also consider David Rittich ($8,300 on both sites) a top option, but for me, I’d rather play some Ottawa skaters over Rittich.

NHL DFS: Slate Overview

Like I mentioned in the open, Florida @ Carolina and Colorado @ San Jose is where I want to focus. Starting with the Panthers who have recently shaken up their lines and put Jonathan Huberdeau ($5,500/$7,300) and Aleksander Barkov ($6,900/$7,500) back together on their top line. This line will be a great play in my opinion but they will potentially be higher owned. Since I feel Florida’s number one line will be popular, I’d rather look to use their second line for value. Patric Hornqvist ($6,000/$6,300) is still on line 2, but he does play with the top guys from line 1 on the first power-play unit. Both Frank Vatrano ($3,600/$3,900) and Alex Wennberg ($3,600/$4,500) play with Hornqvist on line two and on the second power-play unit. Aaron Ekblad ($5,200/$5,300) and Keith Yandle ($4,300/$4,600) play on the Panthers top power-play unit, but Anton Stralman ($2,800/$3,700) is a sneaky good play. Stralman is on power play 2 and has been playing well of late for his salary.

When it comes to Carolina, they are more straightforward forward with their second line being the focus of any builds I make involving them. I love how their second line, especially Vincent Trocheck ($5,600/$5,400). Trocheck has a goal in four of his last seven games and is averaging over 3 shots per game in that stretch. Trocheck’s linemate is one of the better plays for the Canes, but has been cold and is due for a big game, of course I mean Nino Niederreiter ($4,400/$4,800). I don’t love the Cane D and really don’t play them, with the exception of Hamilton, but Brett Pesce ($4,000/$4,100) has been hot with one goal and three assists in his last 5 games.

Looking at the late game of Colorado and San Jose they are both strictly one-line teams with maybe a fringe player or two. Obviously, Colorado’s top line is one of the best lines on this slate and pretty much every other slate they are on. San Jose’s top line has been really clicking of late as well and has combined for 10 goals and 9 assists in their last 5 games together. Logan Couture ($6,300/$7,800) is the star of that line right now and he should definitely be a focus of any Sharks stacks. Brent Burns ($6,800/$6,300) is the only defensemen from the Sharks I’d want to roster, especially on FanDuel where he seems cheap. Samuel Girard ($3,400/$5,100) is a good value play at the point on DK, but not so much on FD.

NHL DFS: Defensemen Rankings

Top Defensemen

1. Alex Pietrangelo (VGK)
2. Thomas Chabot (OTT)
3. Shea Theodore (VGK)
4. Darnell Nurse (EDM)
5. Brent Burns (SJ)
6. Devon Toews (COL)
7. Matt Dumba (MIN)
8. Aaron Ekblad (FLA)
9. Justin Faulk (STL)
10. Neal Pionk (WPG)

Top Value Defensemen:

1. Samuel Girard (COL)
2. Anton Stralman (FLA)
3. Brett Pesce (CAR)
4. Jared Spurgeon (MIN)
5. Adam Larsson (EDM)
6. Josh Mahura (ANH)
7. Erik Brannstrom (OTT)
8. Bowen Byram (COL)
9. Jordie Benn (VAN)
10. Zach Whitecloud (VGK)

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Welcome to the NHL DFS Man Advantage for Wednesday night February 24th and we have a five-game slate on tap!

Wednesday’s slate is practically a repeat of the slate we broke down for Monday night, but there are some differences. Toronto is still the highest projected scoring team on the slate. Their lineup isn’t ideal right now after a rash of injuries, but Auston Matthews ($9,000/$9,300) is still the hottest player in the NHL. Matthews is coming off one of his first bad games on the season and is due for a bounce-back game. On the other side of the ice from the Leafs is the Flames again, and if Frederick Andersen ($8,200/$8,700) is out and Hutchinson has to play then the Flames and Matthew Tkachuk ($6,100/$5,600) are a top play as well. Something to monitor on Wednesday is the status of the Rangers/Flyers game. There was some talk that this game could be postponed because of the Artemi Panarin situation, make sure you are in the discord for updates regarding that game

NHL DFS: Goaltenders

FanDuel’s utter disrespect for Jordan Binnington ($7,600) continues on Wednesday night. They did price him up a couple hundred from Monday but still it is just too easy to play him. I will personally be playing a stack of Los Angeles Kings against Binnington, and I will explain why later, but if you play FanDuel, not playing Binner is hard than playing him is.

As for DraftKings, I will once again be fading the top options in both Binnington ($8,300) and Philipp Grubauer ($8,500). They are both good options, with apparent easy games, but at those prices and against teams that are actually playing really well right now, I will take my chances elsewhere. As long as the Rangers/Flyers game is played, Carter Hart ($7,800/$7,900) against a Rangers team without their best player is my top option. Hart is coming off a bad game in Lake Tahoe against Boston, but before that Hart went 3-0-2 with 30.8 saves per game in his last 5 starts.

Other options: Darcy Kuemper ($8,000/$8,200), John Gibson ($7,400/$6,700), Calvin Petersen ($6,900)

NHL DFS: Slate Overview

Like on Monday night, Calgary/Toronto is the highest projected game, but you already know what we are looking at that for that game, so onto something different for Wednesday. Colorado is at home for Minnesota in what I think could be a high scoring game. Unfortunately, Colorado has decided to split up their top line recently and makes them a difficult team to stack. Luckily, they left the top power play unit in tact so we can stack that unit. If you want to make an Av’s stack obviously Nathan MacKinnon ($8,800/$8,600) is where you have to start. Both Mikko Rantanen ($7,300/$7,700) and Andre Burakovsky ($4,200/$4,500) play with Mac on the top line but you can replace Burakovsky with Gabriel Landeskog ($6,000/$6,300) or Cale Makar ($6,300/$6,000).

Kirill Kaprizov – Victor Rask – Mats Zuccarello

On the other side of this game, the Wild helped us to cash on Monday and we are going right back to them on Wednesday. Minnesota’s second line has been fire recently and we will use them as the top value line to pair with Colorado or Toronto. This 3 man line stack costs a combined $11K on Dk and $14.1K on FD.

Somewhat under the radar the Los Angeles Kings have been on an absolute tear. Over their last five games the Kings have gone 5-0-0 with 20 goals scored and just 6 goals allowed. They are coming of a 3-0 victory over the Blues on Monday where Dustin Brown ($4,800/$6,100) picked up 2 goals. LA’s top line is where I want to start if you have the salary, which features Brown, Anze Kopitar ($6,000/$7,400) and Alex Iafallo ($4,700/$4,900). If you need to use the Kings as a value stack their second line of Jeff Carter ($4,400), Gabriel Vilardi ($3,400/$3,300), and Adrian Kempe ($4,100/$4,400). On the point both Drew Doughty ($5,700/$6,300) and Mikey Anderson ($2,800/$3,800) are in play as well.

NHL DFS: Defensemen Rankings

Top Defensemen

1. Ivan Provorov
2. Cale Makar
3. Drew Doughty
4. Morgan Rielly
5. Adam Fox
6. Jacob Chychrun
7. Devon Toews
8. Justin Faulk
9. Rasmus Andersson
10. Matt Dumba

Top Value Defensemen:

1. Mikey Anderson
2. K’Andre Miller
3. Cam Fowler
4. Ryan Graves
5. Jared Spurgeon
6. Travis Sanheim
7. Juuso Valimaki
8. Josh Mahura
9. Anthony Bitetto

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