Nashville Predators at Minnesota Wild
The Predators have played some pretty good hockey lately, posting a 6-2-2 record in their last 10 games. They’ve won the possession battle in most of those games and have done so in four out of their last five games (four of those games on the road). Despite the lack of star talent (namely up front), this team manages to score enough goals to keep them in games, particularly on the power play (though not so much recently). One trouble area of late has been the penalty kill that has given up six goals in their last five games (though they are still 2-1-2 in those games).
The Wild have been pretty inconsistent for most of the last month which makes this game tough to predict. They have been consistently losing the shot game which has led to wildly varied results. They lost to Ottawa and then beat Edmonton; they beat Anaheim (in Anaheim) and then lost to Colorado; they lost to Calgary and then beat Tampa Bay three nights later. There’s not much rhyme or reason to this team and that worries me in daily fantasy.
These two teams have met twice this year with the Wild taking both games and both were shutouts. This would seem to favor Minnesota tonight but then again, the Wild absolutely waxed Calgary back in November and then lost to them last Saturday. This is a game I’d prefer just to stay away from unless it’s a depth value play.
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Top LW Value |
Top C Value |
Top D Value |
Bargain Bin |
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Nino Niederreiter $5728 |
Jason Zucker $4833 |
Charlie Coyle |
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Kyle Brodziak |
