The only team that played last night that is also playing tonight is Pittsburgh. Going into Ottawa without Craig Anderson isn’t a bad matchup for the Penguins either. They are not heavily-favored though; that distinction belongs to the Islanders (at home to Toronto) and the Canadiens (at home to Edmonton). With Dustin Tokarski starting for Montreal, it’s not a bad idea to go with the starting goalie from either one of those teams.
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As always, check Left Wing Lock for goalie confirmations.
There are a lot of good values on the wing tonight. Aside from a couple of expensive options like Zach Parise or Max Pacioretty, there really isn’t much need to spend far above $5000 on a winger. There are also a lot of good goaltending values, which means spending a bit more than normal for a big slate on defencemen isn’t a bad idea.
Cash Game
| Center | Wing | Defence | Goalie |
| Plekanec (MTL) – $5500 | Perron (PIT) – $4900 | Subban (MTL) – $5800 | Halak (NYI) – $7800 |
| Lee (NYI) – $4600 | Gallagher (MTL) – $5200 | Leddy (NYI) – $3400 | Tokarski (MTL) – $7000 |
| Galchenyuk (MTL) – $5000 | Toffoli (LAK) – $4600 | Stralman (TBL) – $3000 | Greiss (PIT) – $7000 |
| Carter (LAK) – $5100 | Forsberg (NSH) – $5300 | Muzzin (LAK) – $4700 | Dubnyk (MIN) – $8600 |
| Smith (NSH) – $4400 | Maroon (ANA) – $3100 | Letang (PIT) – $6200 | |
| Brassard (NYR) – $4700 | Parise (MIN) – $7500 | ||
| MacKinnon (COL) – $5700 | St. Louis (NYR) – $4300 | ||
| Tavares (NYI) – $8000 | Pacioretty (MTL) – $8400 | ||
- Montreal has such a good matchup that their “second” line should be able to run wild on the non-first line of Edmonton.
- I’m not a big fan of the Los Angeles matchup tonight, but I think Jeff Carter’s line manages to play away from the Giordano/Brodie pairing.
- Spending a bit on either Subban or Letang (in that order) isn’t a bad idea with all the values across the board tonight.
GPP/Tournament
| Center | Wing | Defence | Goalie |
| Plekanec (MTL) – $5500 | Gallagher (MTL) – $5200 | Subban (MTL) – $5800 | Varlamov (COL) – $8300 |
| Galchenyuk (MTL) – $5000 | Bailey (NYI) – $3800 | Leddy (NYI) – $3400 | Ward (CAR) – $6800 |
| Lee (NYI) – $4600 | Kunitz (PIT) – $5300 | Martin (PIT) – $2700 | |
| Nielsen (NYI) – $4700 | Perron (PIT) – $4900 | Dumba (MIN) – $2600 | |
| Tavares (NYI) – $8000 | Vanek (MIN) – $4600 | Barrie (COL) – $4600 | |
| Crosby (PIT) – $9000 | Landeskog (COL) – $5200 | ||
| Granlund (MIN) – $3800 | O’Reilly (COL) – $5000 | ||
| MacKinnon (COL) – $5700 | |||
- Obviously, Montreal and the Islanders are a couple of chalk plays tonight as the most heavily favored teams.
- The cost of the Pittsburgh wingers is almost too cheap to pass up. There isn’t a need to necessarily stack Crosby, as a Perron/Martin duo can work well as a mini-stack. Another mini-stack I like is Vanek-Granlund-Dumba. It gets exposure to both power play lines, and they are all fairly cheap.
- Hopefully Colorado can take advantage of Cam Talbot, the backup goalie for the Rangers who hasn’t played too well since taking over for Henrik Lundqvist.
Bargain Bin
Patrik Berglund (STL-C, $2900) – He’s part of a very good line with Stastny, and Jaskin that has played very well of late.
Brett Connolly (TBL-W, $2900) – Forming a good third line with Killorn and Drouin, while playing the power play with the Johnson line.
Paul Martin (PIT-D, $2700) – Playing with Kris Letang and is the first off the bench when the power play rotates units (which means he overlaps with Crosby/Malkin).
Good luck!
