Daily Fantasy Hockey DFS Value Update – April 16

Columbus Blue Jackets at Pittsburgh Penguins

This series should probably go as expected, which is to say Pittsburgh should be able to take this one handily. The Pens won all five games against the Jackets this year and only allowed seven goals against in the process. The X-Factor in all of this, or I should say XXX-Factor for the way that he can screw his team, is Marc-Andre Fleury. He’s been an absolute sieve in net in the playoffs for several years now and is as likely as any goalie in the first round to lose his job outright.

Columbus played eight games in April, winning five of them. Their three losses came to playoff teams and their only win against a playoff team came against Dallas (in that make-up game where they started off ahead 1-0). Sergei Bobrovsky can be the difference-maker here, but Columbus only scored 10 goals against those four playoff teams. As I mentioned earlier, they struggled spectacularly against the Penguins on offense this year.

Pittsburgh got Kris Letang back towards the end of the regular season and are expected to have Evgeni Malkin back on the second line as well. This team should be firing on all cylinders coming into this game.

It seems too obvious to say that stacking the Penguins here tonight is the right play, but it’s the right play because it’s the most probable outcome. Those wanting to pick some Jackets players are fine to do so in GPPs to be contrarian, but in my opinion, it’s throwing money away.

Michael Clifford

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