Daily Fantasy Hockey DFS Value Update – April 7

Minnesota Wild at Winnipeg Jets

A win tonight would nearly ensure the Wild grab the first wild card spot in the playoffs so I expect a top-notch effort out of this team.

The Wild are riding some high percentages right now and that’s dangerous for a team; in their last three games, the team has scored nine goals on 67 shots, or a 13.4-percent shooting rate. In that stretch, the goaltending has been at .939. It doesn’t take long for one (or both) of these things to correct themselves so even with a good effort, they might not find themselves getting the puck luck tonight. The last game saw some lineup shuffling and saw some cheap players get prime positions to succeed, though.

Winnipeg has essentially been playing to the level of their competition for the last couple of weeks: Good games against teams like Anaheim and Toronto, bad games against teams like Pittsburgh, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. The Wild fall somewhere in the middle so it leaves this game as a bit uncertain for me. Of course the big news of the last game was the healthy scratch of Evander Kane. Whether he plays tonight or not, check websites like Daily Face Off closer to puck drop.

These teams have played each other four times this year and the Wild have skated away with three wins. The lone win for Winnipeg was a home game two days after Christmas. I like the Wild in this one, but it should be a low scoring game. Look for good values (and avoid the goaltending, just in case).

Michael Clifford

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