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Three Stars of the Night

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

• Vladimir Tarasenko – STL – W – ($7900 DK/$8300 FD) – Tarasenko’s production over the last 5 games has been ridiculous and he has a great matchup against an absolutely terrible Arizona team at home.

• Shea Weber – MON – D- ($6500 DK/$5700 FD) – Weber has such a high floor – averaging 2.4 SOG and 3.2 blocks and an assist per game over the past 5 games. Love him tonight against a Minnesota team that played last night.

• Taylor Hall – NJ – W – ($7300 DK/$7500 FD) – Hall has been averaging over 4 shots on goal a game over the last 5 games, but never forget that Edmonton traded Hall for Adam Larsson. If you like the revenge game narrative, Hall is your dude tonight.

Line Stacks

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

• STL1 –Schwartz- Schenn- Tarasenko ($20800 DK/$22000 FD) Expensive and a little chalky, but for good reason. This line has been on fire and faces the worst team in the league

• MON1 – Pacioretty-Danault-Shaw ($15300 DK/$15400 FD) Montreal gets a good matchup at home against a Minnesota team that played last night. This line is clicking too

• TB1 – Kucherov-Stamkos-Namestnikov ($21500 DK/$23100 FD) The most expensive stack on the slate and they played last night so they will probably be low owned. As a line, they are averaging 1.6 goals and almost 3 assists a game on the road.

• LA2 – Pearson-Kempe-Toffoli ($14000 DK/$15800 FD) Right now, Peter Budaj is projected to start for TB who has struggled mightily giving up 8 goals on 55 shots combined in his last two starts.

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

• VAN1 – Baertschi-Horvat-Boeser ($14200 DK/$16600) – An exciting line to watch and has potential to go overlooked because of their biscuit-level underdog odds, but still could go off tonight.

Something that is worth considering here too, is because this is a late west coast game, these games and players tend to go overlooked on a larger slate anyhow, providing some potential lineup/score pushing PMR (player minutes remaining) to put you over the edge when it counts.

Top Shelf Plays

You can assume on most nights that players like Kucherov and McDavid 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

• Carter Hutton – STL – ($8200 DK/$8300 FD) - CONFIRMED

• Charlie Lindgren – MON – ($7800 DK/$7700 FD) - CONFIRMED

• Corey Crawford – CHI – ($7400 DK/$9100 FD) - EXPECTED

• Petr Mrazek – DET – ($7200 DK/$7500 FD) – CONFIRMED - GPP only

Centers

• Sean Couturier – PHI – ($6700 DK/$6600 FD)

• Brayden Schenn – STL – ($6300 DK/$6500 FD)

• Bo Horvat – VAN – ($5000 DK/$5900 FD)

• Ryan Nugent-Hopkins – EDM – ($4900 DK/$4900 FD)

• Philip Danault – MON – ($4700 DK/$4800 FD)

• Antoine Vermette – ANH – ($3800 DK/$3600 FD) GPP Punt

Wings

• Jakub Voracek – PHI – ($6900 DK/$7500 FD)

• Max Pacioretty – MON – ($6500 DK/$7200 FD)

• Dustin Brown – LA – ($5500 DK/$5600 FD)

• Jakob Silfverberg – ANH ($5300 DK/$4700 FD)

• Brock Boeser – VAN – ($4900 DK/$6200 FD)

• Nino Niederreiter – MIN – ($4900 DK/$4900 FD)

• Brendan Gallagher – MON – ($4700 DK/$6100 FD)

• Tanner Pearson – LA – ($4100 DK/$4900 FD)

• Alex Iafallo – LA – ($3600 DK./$3700 FD) GPP Punt

Defensemen

• Alex Pietrangelo – STL – ($6700 DK/$6100 FD)

• Oscar Klefbom – EDM – ($5500 DK/$5600 FD)

• Jake Muzzin – LA – ($5000 DK/$5000 FD)

• Michael Del Zotto – VAN – ($4200 DK/$4200 FD)

• Joe Edmundson – STL – ($4100 DK/$3800 FD)

• Matt Dumba – MIN – ($3300 DK/$3900 FD)

• Ben Hutton - VAN - ($3300 DK/$3600 FD)

• Steve Santini – NJ – ($3000 DK/$3500 FD) Punt

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