Pretty big Saturday night around the NHL as the NBA is off and Hockey takes center stage (or is it center Ice???). Of the 8 games tonight, six of them start 10pm or later, so I hope you are well rested and sober for the late slate if you want to sweat out some NHL DFS.
Teams tonight that are going on B2B –
- NY Rangers (at CGY) and playing 3 in 4 nights.
- LA Kings (home vs Arizona)
Also of note, Detroit continues their hot streak on the road at Seattle. This is once again 3 in 4 nights but not a back to back.
Washington @ Carolina is a stadium series game that is being played outdoors. Ovechkin remains out.
Sabres vs Sharks
Sabres vs SharksThompson, Skinner, Dahlin
Oh Dear. That’s all I gotta say about what we have here. You may not want to pay $7100 for Rasmus Dahlin, but he will have a multi-point night.
NY Rangers vs Flames
NY Rangers vs FlamesTrocheck, Panarin, Trouba
Third in 4 nights? Road back to back? Don’t give a shit. They are on fire and the Flames are … well, they’re not exactly the Flames right now as they are more like snowflakes. If and when the Rangers hot streak ends it ends with the other goalie getting a shutout out of his arse. I don’t see that today.
Flyers vs Canucks
Flyers vs CanucksPHI: Frost, Konecny, JVR, DeAngelo
VAN: Petterson, Beauvillier, Kuzmeno
No matter where you go on the Flyers tonight you’ll find value and they have some guys who maybe playing near the end of their time in Philly too as the trade deadline comes a calling. That aside, I like the over in this spot with both PK units struggling.
SECONDARY STACKS
Calgary – Backlund, Mangiapane
FADES
Toronto Maple Leafs
So keeping with my theory that deadline bold moves send teams strong one way or another for a couple of weeks I think this trade Toronto made with St. Louis is going to have an immediate negative impact. Feel free to tweet at me if Toronto comes out up 4-0 in the first period tonight against a bad Habs team but I want to stay away
CENTERS
Center is the most balanced and deepest position tonight and that doesn’t even include me fading the chalky AM34/JT or Dylan Larkin who is playing great right now.
- Tage Thompson
- Vincent Trocheck … Yes, I am chasing here and yes I am calling a goal.
- Matty Beniers
- Sebastian Aho
- Tomas Hertl
- Elias Pettersson
WINGS
- Artemi Panarin / Vladimir Tarasenko … Pair the bread with Trocheck or play Vlad. Both score tonight IMO if the Rangers do drop 5.
- Adrian Kempe … The Coyotes are giving up the most SOG to RW over the last month and Kempe right now is a shooting machine.
- Anthony Beauvillier
- Travis Konecny
- Andrei Svechnikov
DEFENSE
- Rasmus Dahlin … 1 goal, 2 assists, 4 SOG, 2 BS. Enjoy the stat line.
- Adam Fox (or Jacob Trouba)
- Brady Skjei
- Tony DeAngelo
- Drew Doughty
VALUE
Like this tier tonight quite a bit.
- Joel Armia (W)
- Morgan Frost (C)
- Juuso Valimaki (D)
- Andrew Mangiapane (W)
- Corey Perry (W)
Adin Hill (VGK) … Kucherov continues to not look right in my mind. If he gets right here then tip of the cap but I lean on a low scoring tilt with a very cheap Vegas G seeing 30+ SOG
Jake Allen (MTL) … You HAD to know this was coming if you were actually reading what I wrote above. Stop if you didn’t and go back before you throw up thinking about using Allen tonight. This is leverage, contrarian and who else sucks when they are -440 favorites besides the Leafs????
Side note. Has there ever been a more unique matchup than Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and Kaapo Kahkonen? That’s a lot of K’s guys…
LINE LOCK(S) OF THE NIGHT:
Trocheck – Panarin – Vesey
FAVORITE ONE OFF STUD FORWARDS:
Travis Konecny (Flyers)
FAVORITE ONE OFF VALUE:
Joel Armia (Habs)
FAVORITE ONE OFF DEFENSEMAN:
Rasmus Dahlin (Sabres)
BETS:
Flyers/Canucks o6.5
Rangers ML
Canadiens ML
Bolts/Knights u6
SOG PROPS
Travis Konecny o2.5 (-150)
Rasmus Dahlin o2.5 (-110)
Viktor Arvidsson o2.5 (-150)
Artemi Panarin o2.5 (+105)
Unders
David Perron u2.5
Steven Stamkos u3.5