Daily Fantasy Hockey DFS Value Update – March 14

Anaheim Ducks at Colorado Avalanche

Anaheim is on a little slide of late, having gone 0-2-2 in their last four games, one of which was that blowout to Calgary. The team had been riding a pretty high shooting percentage for most of the season but is just 5.8-percent over those last four games. Without the shot volume they have put up (nearly 35 shots per game), they would have scored far fewer than eight goals in four games. The left-wing-carousel has continued for the Ducks since they traded Dustin Penner as Kyle Palmieri, Patrick Maroon and Nick Bonino have all found time on Anaheim’s top line in the last couple of games. That makes none of them reliable to stay on the line for a whole game.

Colorado is 6-2 since the Olympic break finished and has the most wins of any team in 2014 (20). Their last game, a 3-2 win over Chicago, was without both Paul Stastny (who should return soon from a back injury) and P.A. Parenteau (who will likely miss the rest of the regular season with a knee injury). A lot of this is thanks to goaltender Semyon Varlamov who has posted a .934 save percentage since February 1^st. The injuries have forced new lines and Jamie McGinn is now a fixture with Matt Duchene and Ryan O’Reilly while John Mitchell was on a line with Gabriel Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon in their last game out.

These two teams met in their first game of the season and it was a 6-1 whitewash by Colorado. I think this game is a little bit closer than that one but with the way Colorado is playing, it’s really hard to bet against them right now. A mini-stack of the Avalanche power play might not be a bad play while Semyon Varlamov could be used in net in various games (although I’m not feeling confident about it).

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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