Tuesday’s and Thursday’s and Saturday’s, the largest hockey slates your mind can dream up. Brillian of the NHL to continue to do slates like this (sarcasm), but it’s what we are left to navigate through.
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KINGS vs BLACKHAWKS
This should be the number one game for folks to look at even with the 6 total compared to a 7 on the board and some 6.5’s… The Kings are just DFS gold in all their games, continue to hammer their overs until they stop.
- Kopitar-Kempe-Doughty
- Domi-Athanasiou-Kane
DUCKS vs CANUCKS
Look, as I get older I tend to drool more, it happens to all of us. So yes, I am drooling at a Ducks-Nucks game to end the slate, which should be fantasy gold for everyone involved.
- Zegras-Klingberg
- Horvat-Miller-Hughes
KRAKEN vs WILD
A battle of two of the coolest logo’s in the league should also be a nice contrarian spot tonight. This could be the toughest draw that Kaprizov faces tonight as Seattle has been stout at locking down LW. But it just opens things up for Zuccarello and Boldy as one offs who correlate in a game stack with the Schwartz-Eberle pairing for Seattle.
Both teams are bad vs blue liners and both teams have bad penalty kills. This game should go over.
- Schwartz-Eberle-Dunn
- Zuccarello-Addison
VEGAS
The wings and defenseman are the spots to target vs Ottawa and the value of Marchessault (5200) and Smith (4100) who is the best play on the team tonight make the second line the one to stack.
- Karlsson – Marchessault – Smith – Pietrangelo
JETS
I can easily make a case for the Scheifele-Wheeler combination however Connor is the guy most likely to net two goals for Winnipeg.
- Dubois – Connor – Morrissey
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CORE PICKS
C: Anze Kopitar – Kings
Chicago’s PK is near the bottom of the league and they rank 25th so far against opposing centers. With Kopitar playing as consistent as he is right now I don’t see any reason why we don’t lock on him at $4700
W: Jonathan Huberdeau – Flames
With sports like NHL, NBA and MLB you will often see games that just scream “the better team is going to win” and it doesn’t always pan out that way but my God how does Calgary not demolish Nashville tonight? The top line has big upside but Huberdeau is the one I would be most confident trusting tonight.
D: John Klingberg – Ducks
Look, as I get older I tend to drool more, it happens to all of us. So yes, I am drooling at a Ducks-Nucks game to end the slate, which should be fantasy gold for everyone involved.
UTIL: Bo Horvat – Canucks
See above, Vancouver probably wins and gets a couple Power Play goals along the way from Horvat. While this game can be stacked, I prefer to take my one offs from this and win tournaments with other stacks.
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CENTERS
- Bo Horvat
- Anze Kopitar
- Pierre-Luc Dubois
- Mathew Barzal
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WINGS
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Timo Meier
- Jonathan Huberdeau
- Oliver Bjorkstrand
- Jonathan Marchessault
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DEFENSE
- John Klingberg
- Quinn Hughes
- Miro Heiskanen
- Drew Doughty
- Vince Dunn
- Calen Addison
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VALUE
- Tomas Tatar
- Reilly Smith
- Jaden Schwartz, Jordan Eberle, Oliver Bjorkstrand — all the Kraken….
- Cole Perfetti
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Alright, so there’s a lot of games tonight with potential for some shootouts, so this could feel ugly, but the first approach I am going to take tonight is outlining the games which should be close and lower scoring to give you a “safe” goalie. Hah, I said safe goalie…
I am not interested in stacking or using one offs from Bruins vs Rangers, Hurricanes vs Lightning, Stars vs Coyotes. Of which that Stars vs Coyotes game makes a good amount of sense for our top Goalie pick tonight. The second option from this group of games is someone we know is talented and coming in at a major discount in Igor Shesterkin. The Rangers are going to win and he’s going to not give up more than 2 goals.
- Igor Shesterkin – Rangers – $7,700
- Scott Wedgewood – Dallas – $8,400
Next we look at games which could produce a contrarian option in goalie, not necessarily underdogs but guys who could stand on their heads and post a big save number.
I’m not a fan of guys named Spencer in Baseball and I certainly cannot feel great about a dude named Stuart as a Goalie, it just smells bad, but Mr. Skinner and the Oilers are going to give up lots of SOG vs New Jersey putting him into this critera.
- Stuart Skinner – Oilers – $8,100
- Ilya Sorokin – Islanders – $7,400
And then we have the, what are you drunk, category?
- James Reimer – Sharks – $6,900
My conclusion is that I will go Igor and trust the quality netminder at a discount with a strong desire to use Stuart Skinner in secondary lineups.
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LINE LOCK(S) OF THE NIGHT:
Kopitar – Kempe – Doughty (Kings)
FAVORITE ONE OFF FORWARDS:
Horvat
Huberdeau
Zuccarello
FAVORITE ONE OFF VALUE:
Seattle Kraken
FAVORITE ONE OFF DEFENSEMAN:
John Klingberg
TOP BETS:
Kraken/Wild OVER 6.5
Ducks/Canucks OVER 6
Rangers + Jets + Flames ML Parlay
Stars/Coyotes UNDER 6