NHL · December 21, 2023

The Slapshot – Dec 21st

A huge Thursday night slate as expected tonight.  Only Washington is playing tonight on a B2B.

AVALANCHE

Nathan MacKinnon, Valeri Nichuskin, Devon Toews

The Senators cant stop shit right now, their PK is horrible and the Avalanche are in full beat down mode at the moment.  We have to have a slate breaking performance from the highest $ stack line here tonight to pay off, but I like it to happen & you can find enough good value elsewhere to build around this team.

FLAMES

Nazem Kadri, Connor Zary, Martin Pospisil

I love the Flames, but hate their line combinations.  Good value with the second line who should have a nice advantage anytime they’re on the ice tonight.  Just don’t know that you get a HUGE game from them but at their prices just 1 correlated goal will serve well.

MAPLE LEAFS

John Tavares, Mitchell Marner, Tyler Bertuzzi

 

GAME TO GO ALL IN OR ALL OUT ON

Vegas at Tampa Bay

Both teams are immune to unders right now.  Over their alst 5 the Knights are both averaging and allowing 4+ GF/GA per game.  Tampa’s top duo of Point and Kuch is rolling and at home they should have a solid outing here with potential for 5+ goals.  Honestly, this smells like a spot where both teams try to make sure they do not fuck up and this one winds up being a fast paced, high shot, low scoring game which the goalies stand on their heads and deliver GPP winning results.   That’s where I am going to go, but I had to highlight this as one of the top games on the slate.

 

POSITIONAL RANKINGS

CENTERS

  1. Nathan MacKinnon
  2. John Tavares
  3. Aleksander Barkov
  4. Nazem Kadri
  5. Nico Hischier

Best Value:   Adam Fantilli, Marco Rossi, Alex Kerfoot

 

WINGS

  1. Valeri Nichushkin
  2. Kirill Kaprizov
  3. Mitch Marner
  4. Sam Reinhart
  5. Jesper Bratt
  6. Martin Necas

Best Value:   Tyler Bertuzzi, Pavel Mintyukov

 

DEFENSE

  1. Devon Toews (Bo is ok too)
  2. Aaron Ekblad
  3. Filip Hronek
  4. Travis Sanheim
  5. Zach Werenski

Best Value:   Brock Faber, Alec Martinez

 

  1. Scott Wedgewood (Stars) … I like a Dallas win on home ice vs the Canucks today.
  2. Andrei Vasilevskiy (Lightning) … Someone has to stand on their head here eventually.

 

LINE LOCK(S) OF THE NIGHT:

  • Colorado 1

FAVORITE ONE OFF STUD FORWARDS:

  • Anyone from Colorado if you don’t stack them.

FAVORITE ONE OFF VALUE:

  • Tyler Bertuzzi

BETS:

  • Dallas ML + Panthers ML Parlay
  • Washington/Columbus under 6.5

SOG PROPS:

  • Barkov over 2.5 + Bertuzzi over 1.5 .. Parlay

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