From a 6 game slate to an 8 game slate with a ton of goals on Tuesday down to a 4 gamer tonight which likely produces a bunch of 3-1 final scores. I love the 4 game slate in NHL when we can go contrarian and there are some very good teams going tonight to make decisions around being contrarian.
TIER 1
Hurricanes vs Oilers: Great pace expected in this one and the Hurricanes won’t be able to pull a SOG shutout like they did in the first 16 mins vs Winnipeg.
- CAR: Teravainen, Burns
- EDM: McDavid, Hyman
Golden Knights vs Blues: Jack Eichel is on fire right now and should continue to produce as the Blues are struggling in recent weeks vs centers, so we’re going to want either Eichel or Karlsson from Vegas in any builds. I also like this spot since they just met in Vegas and it was a 2-1 game, I think we go higher scoring tonight with the Blues possibly even stealing this one 4-3.
- VGK: Eichel or Karlsson/Marchessault
- STL: Thomas, Buchnevich, Krug
TIER 2
Stars vs Panthers
This one just doesn’t appeal to me like it should with the firepower both sides could have. I think this is one of the key fade spots tonight and you would either have 8 guys in this game or 0.
AVOID
Penguins vs Lightning
Pittsburgh cannot generate much offense or speed, this should go under unless Kucherov scores 7 himself.
POSITIONAL RANKINGS
CENTERS
- Robert Thomas
- Jack Eichel
- Connor McDavid
- Sebastian Aho
WINGS
- Zack Hyman
- Andrei Svechnikov
- Jonathan Marchessault
- Sam Reinhart
- Nikita Kucherov
- Pavel Buchnevich
DEFENSE
- Brent Burns
- Torey Krug
- Aaron Ekblad
- Esa Lindell – Value
- Jake Oettinger (Dallas)
- Andrei Vasilevskiy (Tampa)
LINE LOCK(S) OF THE NIGHT:
- Robert Thomas, Pavel Buchnevich, Torey Krug (Blues)
FAVORITE ONE OFF STUD FORWARDS:
- Zach Hyman (Oilers)
FAVORITE ONE OFF VALUE:
- Ivan Barbashev (Knights)
BETS:
- Stars +100
- Pens/Lightning under 6.5
- Canes/Oilers over 6.5
SOG PROPS – Parlay these together
- Zack Hyman over 2.5 SOG
- Aleksander Barkov over 2.5 SOG
- Victor Hedman under 2.5 SOG
- Torey Krug over 2.5 SOG