Daily Fantasy Hockey DFS Value Update – January 9, 2013

St. Louis Blues at Calgary Flames

The Blues, as of today, have the best goals for/game mark (3.60) and the third-best goals against/game mark (2.26). In a weird twist, the Blues are actually allowing fewer goals against/game on the road (2.20) than they are at home, and are still the third-highest scoring team on the road in the regular season.

The Flames are coming off a blowout loss in Phoenix 6-0, giving them five losses in their last six games and a goals for/against differential of (-18). It’s been a real bad stretch of games for the Flames, but they can build on the fact that the last time the Blues came to town, the Flames won the game 4-3 in a shootout.

The Blues are in a familiar situation tonight. On their last Alberta road trip, the Blues blew out the Oilers and then lost in Calgary two nights later. The Blues grossly outplayed the Oilers in their 5-2 win on Tuesday and come into Calgary tonight. Déja vu?

It’s tough to cap this game because they outplayed the Flames in the last game but the Flames were able to manage two power play goals, something only San Jose and Chicago have been able to do this year. With the Blues only taking one penalty in their last two games and killing off their last 10 straight short-handed chances, I expect tonight to be a different result for St. Louis and to take this game. Again, however, there could be more goals than you’d like to feel comfortable taking any goalie.

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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