Daily Fantasy Hockey DFS Value Update – January 5, 2014

Vancouver Canucks at Anaheim Ducks

Roberto Luongo returned for Vancouver last night and saved 46 of 48 shots he faced, though Vancouver fell 3-1 to Los Angeles. They will need to be a lot better defensively tonight as they travel to Anaheim, a team that has one regulation loss in the last 40 calendar days.

Anaheim has been nearly unbeatable at home this year as the Ducks have gone 16-0-2 in their 18 home games so far this year, averaging 3.9 goals for/game and 1.8 goals against/game. Both those marks are the second-best marks in the NHL for a home team.

These two teams met a couple of months ago in Anaheim which resulted in a 3-1 win for the Ducks. That game was much the same circumstance as tonight; Vancouver was playing on back-to-back nights in California while Anaheim had a night off before the game. Vancouver dominated that game pretty much start to finish but goaltending was the difference.

I don’t expect Luongo to come back from injury and get two starts in a row, which means Eddie Lack should get the start tonight. The disparity of that last meeting makes me think tonight will be a close game and not a blow out, as Anaheim sometimes does at home. I do think, however, Anaheim still ends up winning in the end.

Good luck!

Michael Clifford

Michael Clifford was born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and is a graduate of the Unviersity of New Brunswick. He writes about fantasy hockey and baseball for XNSports and FantasyTrade411.com. He can be reached on Twitter @SlimCliffy for any fantasy hockey questions. Follow @SlimCliffy !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

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