This is my wheelhouse. A great six game slate with some west coast hammers and good road teams. We should have an enjoyable week of hockey coming up through Thursday until the crappy three game Friday slate.
A big theme I see tonight is going back to the trend last year and prior years of needing studs and duds on DraftKings. This is more dictated by the matchups and less by the pricing tonight, so just keep that in mind.
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TOP SPOTS…
OILERS
Without Barkov in the lineup tonight things will be mighty difficult for the Panthers in Edmonton. SLowing down McDavid is hard enough but they should also struggle defending the RNH-Hyman second line combination which I greatly like for value. Florida possibly slowing down the pace likely only hurts them in my mind and Edmonton gets 4+ goals today.
McDavid, Puljujarvi, Nugent-Hopkins, Barrie
KNIGHTS
Columbus is near the bottom in the league in many defensive categories and should be in a hard spot to stop the Knights.
One key position here is the defensive spot, which has been gold against Columbus and we have Alex Pietrangelo coming off three less than stellar games.
Karlsson – Smith – Pietrangelo
STARS
Dallas is coming off a tough loss in Colorado on Saturday night and welcomes a trip to St. Louis to take on a bad Blues defense.
Hintz, Pavelski, Robertson
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Tonight sets up as a high ($$$) and low ($) type build slate.
CENTERS
- Connor McDavid
- William Karlsson
- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
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WINGS
- Jason Robertson
- Reilly Smith
- Jeff Skinner
- Nikita Kucherov
- Sam Reinhart
- Leon Draisaitl
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DEFENSE
- Alex Pietrangelo
- Tyson Barrie / Darnell Nurse – Both are very affordable. Barrie is on PP1
- Mark Giordano
- Miro Heiskanen
- Jonas Siegenthaler – I like his block shot bonus potenetial for $3400. Doesnt skate on PP though.
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My Pick of the day
We could easily back the goalie for Dallas (Oettinger), Vegas (Thompson) or Edmonton (Skinner) tonight. I believe all three will win with plenty of goal support. I also feel all three could be well below 30 SOG against tonight, so the upside is lessened.
Who doesn’t love a big Devils-Rangers game? There’s juice in this game but I think it’s on the netminders having their focus for a big game tonight.
Contrarian minds will look at the road Vitek Vancek to post another stellar performance tonight for just $7,500. However I believe Igor Shesterkin will see more shots and plays great at home today. He’s my pick for $7.900
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Other Top Ranked Goalies
Logan Thompson (Knights)
Stuart Skinner (Oilers)
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LINE LOCK(S) OF THE NIGHT:
McDavid – Puljujarvi – Barrie (Oilers)
FAVORITE ONE OFF FORWARD:
Jason Robertson (Stars)
FAVORITE ONE OFF VALUE:
Tyson Barrie (Oilers)
FAVORITE ONE OFF DEFENSEMAN:
Alex Pietrangelo
BETS
Oilers + Knights + Stars ML Parlay
Devils/Rangers UNDER 6