We’ve got a large slate in the NHL and more options for DFS than we can count. I will break it down to our top plays to make it easier to sort through. Let’s get into it.
Top Stacks – Overall
Boston 1 – DraftKings: $24,800 – FanDuel: $26,000
Patrice Bergeron – David Pastrnak – Brad Marchand
Boston 1 is the top spend-up line on the day, and the only reason not to play them is if you can’t afford it. We should also get decent ownership on them due to their prohibitive price and the perception that Edmonton is a tough matchup. While they are a great team offensively, they haven’t been world-beaters on the defensive end. I’d fire up Boston 1 with confidence against this Oilers team.
Edmonton 1 – DraftKings: $19,200 – FanDuel: $22,600
Connor McDavid – Zach Hyman – Jesse Puljujarvi
Our second top stack comes from the same game as the first. While Edmonton’s line 1 is not as strong without Leon Draisaitl paired with Connor McDavid, the Hyman/Puljujarvi iteration serves to lower price and total stack ownership. However, you can pair McDavid with some combo of Hyman/Draisaitl/Ryan Nugent-Hopkins/Tyson Barrie for a power-play one stack if you choose. The bottom line is that McDavid himself and anyone skating alongside him is always going to be highly viable on any slate. Boston is a tough matchup, but Edmonton plays on home ice, and McDavid can beat anyone.
Winnipeg 1 – DraftKings: $19,200 – FanDuel: $21,300
Kyle Connor – Mark Scheifele – Blake Wheeler
Winnipeg 1 is one of the best lines in hockey, and they get a perfect matchup against a Seattle team that is fifth highest in the league in goals-against. They’re fully correlated on the power play, and defenseman Nate Schmidt should continue to skate on PP1 in the absence of Neal Pionk. He offers solid FanDuel value at $4,200.
Top Stack – DraftKings Value
St. Louis 1 and 2
STL1 – Brandon Saad – Ryan O’Reilly – Jordan Kyrou – $12,400
STL2 – Pavel Buchnevich – Ivan Barbashev – Vladimir Tarasenko – $12,100
These two St. Louis lines are relatively underpriced on DraftKings. This is a soft matchup against an attackable Detroit team. Both are equally viable, and all skaters are on either power play one or two, so you can also run PP1 or 2 stacks.
Top Stack – FanDuel Value
Chicago 1 – $16,600
Patrick Kane – Jonathan Toews – Brandon Hagel
We’re getting some excellent value here on Chicago’s top line going up against a terrible Montreal defensive squad that leads the league in goals against. It would be nice if we had full power play one correlation, but beggars can’t be choosers, and all three skaters at least skate on either PP1 or 2. You can also pair them with top defenseman Seth Jones. Any time you can attack Montreal with an NHL line 1 at this price, you want to take advantage of it.
Top Plays – Defenseman
Ceiling:
Roman Josi – DraftKings: $7,400 – FanDuel: $7,200
Seth Jones – DraftKings: $7,300 – FanDuel: $6,900
Zach Werenski – DraftKings: $6,700 – FanDuel: $6,000
Darnell Nurse – DraftKings: $6,300 – FanDuel: $6,300
DraftKings Value:
Colton Parayko: $4,600
David Savard: $3,300
Scott Mayfield: $3,100
Calvin de Haan: $2,500
FanDuel Value:
Noah Dobson: $4,600
Colton Parayko: $4,300
Nate Schmidt: $4,200
Jake Muzzin: $3,700
Top Plays – Goalie
Jake Oettinger – DraftKings: $8,100 – FanDuel: $8,600
Marc-Andre Fleury – DraftKings: $8,000 – FanDuel: $7,100
Mikko Koskinen – DraftKings: $8,100 – FanDuel: $8,400
Charlie Lindgren – DraftKings: $8,500 – FanDuel: $7,500
Tournament Stack Pivots: DraftKings
We’re getting solid leverage on likely the top two stacks of the day in the Boston and Edmonton game with their respective top lines. Still, if you want some very low-ownership pivots for GPPs, I would consider MIN1, NSH1, DAL1, TOR2, and CAR1.
Tournament Stack Pivots: FanDuel
BOS1 and EDM1 should not be over-owned on FanDuel either, yet there are some very low-ownership options we can go with for tournaments. TOR1 and 2, CAR1, MIN1, NSH1, DAL1 are all on the table here. Many perfectly viable stacks will be close to overlooked on such a large NHL slate.
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