Daily Fantasy Hockey DFS Value Update – April 8

Nashville Predators at Dallas Stars

The Predators have won three straight games and have gone 6-1-1 in their last eight overall. That has been against some pretty stiff competition with Chicago, San Jose, Anaheim, Dallas, and Colorado among those eight games. This is still a team in the top half of the league in possession and they are finally starting to get some consistent goaltending. One problem this team has had is scoring with regularity and that starts with their power play; over the course of the season, this team has gone from inside the top 10 in power play efficiency and dropped a couple of percent since. The bigger problem is they are not drawing a lot of penalties either, averaging just two a game over their last seven.

Dallas has stumbled a bit of late, losing games to the Hurricanes and Panthers, the latter was a blown 2-0 lead for a regulation loss. I expect motivation from the Stars tonight, playing a divisional game with the ability to officially eliminate the Predators from playoff contention. They have scored inconsistently (ten goals in last two wins, three goals in last two losses) but I would look at their depth players tonight; Tyler Seguin has just one assist in four games against the Predators this year.

Each team has a two regulation wins against the other this year but Dallas should be a desperate team tonight. The winners in each game has been the home team, so I don’t mind Lehtonen in net for Dallas in this one.

Michael Clifford

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