Daily Fantasy Hockey DFS Value Update – April 20

Detroit Red Wings at Boston Bruins

I committed the Cardinal Sin of daily fantasy sports in Game 1 of this series when I went against my instinct and played into the “playoffs have been high scoring” fallacy. The result was a small Bruins stack that did next-to-nothing, as the game finished 1-0 for Detroit.

Most games between these two teams this year have been fairly low-event – the average NHL game has about 60 shots on goal, these two teams in their last two games of the regular season averaged 50 shots on goal – and low-event typically means low-scoring. This was a tight-checking game (from what I saw) and these two teams are relatively evenly matched, even with Boston having a slight edge in depth.

I’d rather just stay away from this game for today. I don’t think it’s very high scoring (bad for DFS) and the goaltending is a toss-up (very bad for DFS). If the players aren’t cheap value plays to round out GPPs, I’m just staying away.

Michael Clifford

Michael Clifford was born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and is a graduate of the Unviersity of New Brunswick. He writes about fantasy hockey and baseball for XNSports and FantasyTrade411.com. He can be reached on Twitter @SlimCliffy for any fantasy hockey questions. Follow @SlimCliffy !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

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