Daily Fantasy Hockey DFS Value Update – January 24

Nashville Predators at Calgary Flames

Playing back-to-back games on the road is tough for any team and Nashville will be doing exactly that tonight after a 2-1 win in Vancouver last night. In such situations this year, Nashville is 1-2 with their only win coming in Winnipeg back in October. This is about par for the course for teams in this situation, just look at how St. Louis did the other night against New Jersey or how Philadelphia did last night against Columbus. With Carter Hutton starting last night, I would expect Devan Dubnyk to get the start tonight against Calgary and he’s the wildcard in this – Dubnyk was 4-1 in his last five games against Calgary when he was an Oiler.

Calgary won their last game at home against Phoenix 3-2 and has now scored at least two goals in six straight games, a remarkable accomplishment considering how bad this team looked at the end of December and early January. Over their last five games, Mark Giordano has managed to tally a point in each of them and he’s actually second on the team in scoring despite missing six weeks with injury. He is one defenseman that will be in a lot of my lineups tonight. Other than him and Jiri Hudler, though, you’re really just kind of throwing darts at who might score and that’s a problem in DFS.

These two teams met a little over a week ago in Nashville in what was a 4-2 Predators win. The only thing that makes me nervous about taking Karri Ramo as my goalie in GPPs tonight is that Nashville win 10 days ago; they were able to convert a couple of power play chances (which they’ve been good at all season long) and hold a punch-less team to a couple of goals. I won’t be taking Nashville skaters except for maybe a power play guy or two but this is the game that will probably decide profits and losses tonight.

Michael Clifford

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