Today is a disaster day for DFS hockey, particularly in cash games. There are no teams playing the second of a back to back, most matchups are fairly evenly matched (at least from a Vegas point of a view), and two of the five games are inter-Conference play, so there isn’t much history to go on. It’s a day I would recommend cutting back on volume, or at least transferring the drop in cash game volume to GPPs.
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Players will be in order of perceived value, by position, and there should be enough to mix-and-match for each type of game available on Draft Kings. Some positions might only have a few plays, some might have several. It all depends on the day, the matchups, and the price.
Remember: players are in order of value, not necessarily in cost. Just because Sidney Crosby is $8000 one day doesn’t mean he’s a better value than Andrew Shaw at $4000.
Cash Games
| Centre | Wing | Defense | Goalie |
| Johnson (TBL) – $5100 | Maroon (ANA) – $3600 | Garrison (TBL) – $4600 | Andersen (ANA) – $8100 |
| Duchene (COL) – $6000 | Hartnell (CBJ) – $5200 | Lindholm (ANA) – $3400 | Bishop (TBL) – $7700 |
| Getzlaf (ANA) – $6600 | Killorn (TBL) – $4600 | Wisniewski (CBJ) – $4100 | Fasth (EDM) – $6700 |
| Johansen (CBJ) – $6800 | Hall (EDM) – $6900 | Girardi (NYR) – $3800 | |
| Brassard (NYR) – $4100 | Huberdeau (FLA) – $4400 | Kulikov (FLA) – $3400 | |
| Stamkos (TBL) – $8800 | O’Reilly (COL) – $4600 | ||
| Nugent-Hopkins (EDM) – $4700 | Zuccarello (NYR) – $4500 | ||
| Perry (ANA) – $7500 | |||
- Alex Killorn’s price for Tampa Bay is too good to pass up tonight, but I also like their secondary players quite a bit tonight. Names like Johnson and Garrison appear to have pretty good matchups away from the top guns for New York.
- There are a lot of very good players with a price tag under $7K, and that makes expensive players like Stamkos and Corey Perry fairly disposable on a short slate.
- Goaltending is a real mess tonight. There are no real big favorites tonight, and all teams appear to be evenly matched. On a night like that, it’s not necessarily a bad idea to get with an extremely cheap option.
Guaranteed Prize Pools/Tournaments
| Centre | Wing | Defense | Goalie |
| Johansen (CBJ) – $6800 | Hartnell (CBJ) – $5200 | Garrison (TBL) – $4600 | Fasth (EDM) – $6700 |
| Duchene (COL) – $6000 | Foligno (CBJ) – $5100 | Wisniewski (CBJ) – $4100 | Pickard (COL) – $7200 |
| Johnson (TBL) – $5100 | O’Reilly (COL) – $4600 | Redmond (COL) – $3400 | |
| Nugent-Hopkins (EDM) – $4700 | Palat (TBL) – $4700 | Schultz (EDM) – $4100 | |
| Kucherov (TBL) – $4500 | |||
| Hall (EDM) – $6900 | |||
| Eberle (EDM) – $5200 | |||
- Again, DFSers can go just about anywhere tonight. There usually isn’t a wrong answer when making a GPP lineup, and that especially rings true tonight.
- If I’m going to stack against the Rangers, it’ll be players not on Tampa Bay’s first line. It’s a way to get away from high ownership rates, and it avoids the Ryan McDonagh pairing.
- There are a lot of borderline goalies tonight, so there’s no real bad way to go in net. I like Fasth because he has a good shot at facing upwards of 30 shots.
Slim’s Pickins (bargain plays)
Vlad Namestnikov (TBL-C, $2600) – Namestnikov is part of the Tampa Bay depth that can be targeted tonight.
Brett Connolly (TBL-W, $2500) – Top power play minutes for the Lightning.
Josh Manson (ANA-D, $2500) – The Anaheim defence corps has sustained a lot of injuries and it has thrust Manson into a prominent role.
Good luck!
