Top NHL Plays 1/18 | Goals Will Be Tended 🥅

January 18, 2018

Voluntarily penned by LineStarMVP's = ZeroInDenver + Jdrujon! 

10 game slate tonight with a 7PM EST lock.

After tonight, you'll be wanting to hug Paul Stastny too.

Three Stars of the Night

Not a big believer in “must haves” or “core players” for your lineup, but if you’re running a single lineup, these are the players I’d try to get in.

  • Paul Stastny – C – PHI ($7300 DK/$7100 FD)

  • Brad Marchand – W– BOS ($6900 DK/$7300 FD) Studly over the last 5 games and is always a scoring threat.

  • Brent Burns – D – SJ ($7200 DK/$7400 FD)

Line Stacks

  • VGK– Smith-Karlsson-Marchessault ($17900 DK/$19500 FD) Vasilievskiy is one of the highest projected goalies on LineStar today which is all the more reason for me to target this line in GPP. This line has seen over 7 scoring chances a game on the road and with TB’s top defenseman on the IR, expect them to see plenty of scoring chances tonight as well.

  • STL– Barbashev-Stastny-Tarasenko ($19500 DK/$21600 FD) In almost 40 minutes together on the road, they have a 64% CF% with 3 goals on 24 shots.

  • COL – Landeskog-MacKinnon-Rantanen ($19500 DK/$21600 FD) This line is ridiculous at home and tough to fade. 61% CF% with 33 goals in 20 games at home this season. Expensive, but tons of upside.

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

Top Shelf Plays

Lundqvist is your tender for the evening 🥅

Here are some of the players we like the most for tonight. If you’d like any specifics of why a certain player made (or didn’t make) the list, give us a holler in NHL chat.

Goaltenders 🥅

  • Henrik Lundqvist – NYR - $8400 DK/$9200 FD

  • Pekka Rinne – NSH - $8300 DK/$8500 FD

  • Jonathan Bernier – COL - $7500 DK/$8000 FD

  • Anton Khudobin – BOS - $7700 DK/$7900 FD- GPP

  • Craig Anderson – OTT - $6900 DK/$7600 FD – GPP Punt

**Always check to make sure goaltenders are confirmed before lock!**

Punts of the Night đź‘Ť

These are the players in the bottom of the barrel with risk but provide salary relief with some upside:

  • Carl Soderberg – C – COL - $3700 DK/$3700 FD

  • Jake Dotchin – D – TB $3200 DK/$4000 FD

  • Alex Goligoski – D – ARI - $3500 DK/$4300 FD

  • Andy Greene – D - NJ - $3200 DK/$3600 FD

Pop-in say THANK YOU to the superstar authors of this, ZeroInDenver and Jdrujon on LineStar NHL Chat!

Good luck tonight 🍀🍀🍀