DFS Fantasy Hockey Value Update – December 15

Tampa Bay Lightning at Detroit Red Wings

Both of these teams are coming off losses last night, being outscored a combined 7-1. Over their last eight combined games, these two teams are 1-3-4 and have scored 12 total goals.

Two downward-trending teams who are both playing on the second night of a back-to-back and are each without star players? Sunday Sadness Bowl, indeed.

The Wings and Bolts met on Thursday night, and the result was a 1-1 tie that went to a shootout. On top of that, the teams went a combined 0-for-8 on the power play. In fact, over those last eight games these two teams have played, they are a combined 3-for-29 on the power play, or an awful 10.3-percent.

In all, you can read the tea leaves, so to speak, with this one. Maybe because both teams are tired that this ends up being a high-scoring game, but I just don’t see it. Pick a side and grab a goaltender, because the skaters probably won’t do much.

Michael Clifford

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