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Three Stars of the Night

If you’re going to spend up, these are our favorite targets on the night:

• Blake Wheeler – WPG – W – ($7700 DK/$7900 FD) – You can easily swap Mark Scheifele in this spot, but Wheeler has seemed to be a little less-owned over the past two weeks and has been slightly more productive than Scheifele over that period. In an ideal situation, we want to roster players that average 4FPPG or higher on DraftKings (14 FPPG on FanDuel). Over the past 5 games, Wheeler is averaging over 8 FPPG on DraftKings and 30 FPPG on FanDuel!

• Evander Kane – BUF – W- ($7000 DK/$6800 FD) – Kane has been averaging almost 4 shots on goal a game over the last 5 games and is facing a Florida team that’s giving up over 3 goals/game on the road. This guy's floor is the ceiling of many middle tier players. On a shorter slate and cash games, we like that... a lot.

• Torey Krug - BOS – D ($5100 DK/$5300 FD) – Krug’s numbers over the past 5 games have been outstanding and faces a Toronto team that is giving up over 3 goals/game at home this season. If you buy into recent matchup or overall history, Krug looks even more intriguing tonight - oh, and that's a lot of green stuff going on there!

Line Stacks

There’s a lot of great matchups tonight. Here are some of our favorite lines to stack in GPPs tonight

• WPG – Connor-Scheifele-Wheeler ($19900 DK/$19800 FD) This line generates a lot of offense and should be one of the highest-owned stacks of the night.

• CLS – Panarin-Wennberg-Atkinson ($16700 DK/$19200 FD) Columbus hasn’t played great recently but I expect Columbus to start to turn it around with Atkinson back on the top line and playing on home ice tonight

• BUF – Kane-Eichel-Pominville ($19300 DK/$18800 FD) Florida gives up the most shots on goal on the slate tonight and the top line for Buffalo should see plenty of scoring opportunities.

The Risk-It-For-The-Biscuit Stack:

• VGK – Marchessault-Karlsson-Smith ($14000 DK/$16400 FD) Hellebuyck has been outstanding, but this line has played well at home and could sneak a few pucks in the net.

Top Shelf Plays

You can assume on most nights that players like Ovechkin and Seguin are in play. There’s no need to list them here. What we’re trying to provide is a list of players at the top, middle, and value salary tiers that you should consider in your lineup based on their line, power play time, shots on goal, or consistency over the past month.

Goaltenders

• Connor Hellebuyck – WPG ($7900 DK/$8400 FD) Confirmed

• Sergei Bobrovsky – CLS ($8300 DK/$9100 FD) Expected

• Braden Holtby – WAS ($7600 DK/$9200 FD) Confirmed

• Robin Lehner – BUF ($7300 DK/$7400 FD) Confirmed - GPP Only

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