Los Angeles Kings at Pittsburgh Penguins
Los Angeles seems to have recovered from their three-game losing streak by winning four straight and the team is now 11-3-0 since the Olympic break.
The Kings are running through the Eastern Conference like Usain Bolt paired against a five-year-old; the Kings have outscored their opponents by just five in their last four games and their puck possession in close scores is a whopping 61.6-percent. To put that in perspective, the Anaheim Ducks are an even 50-percent on the season. The Kings aren’t scoring a pile of goals so the DFS upside is limited, but so is the downside.
Pittsburgh is just 2-4-1 in their last seven games and the injury-filled season (which seems to happen every year to them) continues as it was announced that Evgeni Malkin may miss the rest of the regular season with a foot injury. In his place, Brandon Sutter moved to the second line between Jussi Jokinen and James Neal. This team is really struggling to get through their injuries, especially on the back end. Matt Niskanen and Olli Maatta are having nice seasons, but the team really misses the offensive talent of Kris Letang and the puck moving of Paul Martin. Until this team start to get healthy, it’s really hard to rely on their stars in DFS given the prices.
The Penguins went into Los Angeles at the end of January and skated out with a 4-1 win. The thing is, the team scored those four goals on just 22 shots. Relying on shooting 18-percent or better isn’t a sound team strategy. Both teams scare me enough that I would rather just avoid the goalies, but I will be leaning to some Los Angeles skaters in this one.
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Top RW Value |
Top LW Value |
Top C Value |
Top D Value |
Bargain Bin |
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(PIT) $6372 |
(LAK) $5940 |
(LAK) $9673 |
(LAK) $7195 |
(LAK) $6303 |
