Minnesota Wild at Phoenix Coyotes
Minnesota has lost four of their last five games and six of their last eight. As a team, their possession rates have been consistently declining for a while and they have been out-possessed in half of their previous eight games. Those games include the Islanders and Detroit twice. Yuck.
One thing the team has stopped doing is stopping pucks. The team was getting Vezina-calibre goaltending from Josh Harding for half the year and then Darcy Kuemper stepped in and did an admirable job for a couple of month. Lately, the team has allowed 20 goals against in their last five games and have allowed fewer than three goals just once in their last seven games.
Phoenix continues to be without goaltender Mike Smith but back-up Thomas Greiss has done an admirable job all season and I don’t have any concerns in net for them.
The team seems to play differently in front of Greiss; Phoenix allows the seventh-most shots on goal as a team per game (31.5), but in seven of Greiss’ last eight games, the team has allowed 30 or fewer shots against. That bodes well for a goalie in DFS if someone is looking for a shutout (which are insanely hard to predict).
This is a game with two pretty evenly-matched teams that are playing without their ideal goaltender in net. I’d rather just pick a couple of value plays and stay away from the goalies other than Greiss in a deep GPP format.
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Top RW Value |
Top LW Value |
Top C Value |
Top D Value |
Bargain Bin |
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(PHX) $8520 |
(MIN) $9149 |
(PHX) $8036 |
(PHX) $8974 |
(PHX) $5857 |
