What a big slate tonight with 11 games total. It kind of feels like this is the time when NHL should be winding down as Spring is in the air, the NCAA Tournament is around the corner and well, damn you Baseball. We march on and from Wed-Fri this week you’ll have the Point Shot only, and then the Slap Shot back on Saturday. Any NHL picks I’ll have will be in the Discord channel Wed-Fri as the CBB takes center stage for me.
William Karlsson – Vegas – $3,500 – Value
Great value on Willie as the road 2nd line center vs the Flyers. Yes, Eichel is playing well for Vegas, but this full line stack is going to produce and his $3.5k price is hard to ignore and quite honestly with Marchessault next to him I don’t see how he won’t finish with an assist or two or three – this is more loading up on the line and taking the value security of Wild Bill.
Other Centers:
- Elias Lindholm – Calgary
- Trevor Zegras – Anaheim
- Dylan Larkin – Detroit
- Ryan O’Reilly – St. Louis
- Little Bitch – Pittsburgh
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Alex DeBrincat – Chicago – $6,200
The Hawks top line has an extremely high rating tonight vs a team giving up 33+ shots per game and 3+ GPG on the year. Good spot for the Hawks to put up another high scoring spot.
Other Wings:
- Jonathan Marchessault – Vegas
- Vlad Tarasenko – St. Louis
- Nikita Kucherov – Tampa Bay
- William Nylander – Toronto
- Rickard Rakell – Anaheim
- Clayton Keller – Arizona
- Fobby Fabbri – Detroit
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John Klingberg – Stars – $4,200
Things have not been stellar for Klingberg with a -16 and just 1 goal on the year. But the Preds are a favorable opponent and this game is one which if it wasn’t on an 11 game slate would have my attention for a game stack. I like some offense in this game with Klingberg contributing for an assist or two and maybe, just maybe, he gets #2 tonight.
Other Defense:
- Devon Toews – Colorado
- Alex Pientrangelo – Vegas
- Thomas Chabot – Ottawa
- Seth Jones – Chicago
- Jamie Drysdale – Anaheim
- Ivan Provorov – Philadelphia
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Jakub Vrana – Detroit – $2,500
The flying V is back after being out with injury which is ironic because the other part of the deal Anthony Mantha has also missed most of the season. Vrana is dirt cheap and by dirt cheap I mean a min priced $2500 on DraftKings. The Coyotes are adequate against RW on the season ranking in the top 10 in Goals allowed for the year and 5th in FPPG allowed in the past month, but they are so bad overall that for his min price I don’t mind rolling him out as a punt play.
Other Value:
- Valeri Nichushkin – Colorado
- Tyler Toffoli – Calgary
- Alex Wennberg – Seattle
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Chicago Blackhawks
Ryan Strome, Patrick Kane, Alex DeBrincat
Vegas Golden Knights – 2nd line
William Karlsson, Jonathan Marchessault, Reilly Smith
St. Louis Power Play
Ryan O’Reilly, David Perron, Vlad Tarasenko, Torey Krug
Arizona vs Detroit
Dylan Larkin, Robby Fabbri, Jakub Vrana
Clayton Keller, Shayne Gostisbehere
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Cam Talbot – Wild
Not much on the Rangers/Wild game really excites me, so lets take our negative goalie gamble and place it on Cam fricken Talbot shall we?
Tristian Jarry – Penguins
One has to ask themselves, do I want to pay for Tristian Jarry? Well, the Panthers are on a B2B and the Penguins usually fare decently against them. Plus we know the shot volume should be there, so yeah, I can see it working out for only $7,600.
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Slap Shots …
LINE LOCK(S) OF THE NIGHT:
Ryan Strome, Patrick Kane, Alex DeBrincat (Chicago)
William Karlsson, Jonathan Marchessault, Reilly Smith (Vegas)
FAVORITE ONE OFF FORWARDS:
Vlad Tarasenko (Blues)
FAVORITE ONE OFF VALUE:
William Karlsson, Jakub Vrana
FAVORITE ONE OFF DEFENSEMAN:
John Klingberg
TOP BETS:
Coyotes/Red Wings OVER 6
Panthers/Penguins UNDER 6.5