Daily Fantasy Hockey DFS Value Update – January 9, 2013

Minnesota Wild at Phoenix Coyotes

Minnesota comes into Phoenix on a three-game winning streak with their latest win coming against Los Angeles. Impressive, right? Well, their first two wins came against Buffalo (NHL’s worst team) and Washington (a team on a big slide) and then got outshot 40-17 against the Kings but Darcy Kuemper was able to make 39 saves to force, and win, a shootout. The record is not indicative of the performance.

Phoenix has continued their consistently inconsistent play with a 6-0 win at home against Calgary on Tuesday. Since November 5^th, so a stretch of over two months now, the Coyotes have neither won nor lost more than three games in a row, hence their consistent inconsistency. This makes it extremely difficult to judge how a team will perform in the future.

The last time these two teams met was a 3-1 Phoenix win, and that came at a time when the Wild were nine games above .500. That number has since shrunk to six games above .500, to give you an indication of how they’ve played.

I don’t have a good read on this game so I’ll say Phoenix wins but I’m completely guessing as to how many goals they’ll score. If you have a better read on this game, go for it. I’m going to be staying away completely.

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');

See Full Bio