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Three Stars of the Night

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

• Jack Eichel – C - BUF – $6900 DK/$7100 FD - Truth be told, Eichel isn’t the best play or even the best play at center tonight, but he’s facing an awful Ottawa team at home. If there was ever an opportunity for Eichel to have a great game, tonight is the night.

• Alex Ovechkin – W - WAS – $8000 DK/$8800 FD - Out of today’s player pool, Ovi is in the top 10% in almost every offensive category, including individual corsi for, shots on goal, average fantasy points in the last 5 games and average fantasy points over the past 5 home games. He’s the dude if you’re going to spend up.

• Zach Werenski – D -WAS- $5300 DK/$5400 FD – Werenski isn’t going to stay under $5500 for long. He isn’t shy about shooting the puck and has a great matchup at home against Edmonton.

Line Stacks

Vegas will be one of the most obvious stacks tonight facing the Hurricanes who played last night. Here are a couple other lines to consider:

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

Top Shelf Plays

Here’s 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. 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 🥅

These goals aren't going to tend themselves, let's goooooo......

• Jonathan Quick – LA - $8000 DK/$8700 FD

• Marc-Andre Fleury – VGK - $7800 DK/$7800 FD

• Corey Crawford – CHI - $8300 DK/$8600 FD

• Sergei Bobrovsky – CLS - $8200 DK/$8800 FD

• Andrei Vasilevskiy – TB - $7900 DK/$9400 FD - GPP

• Robin Lehner – BUF - $7200 DK/$$7200 FD – GPP PUNT

Punts of the Night 👍

Trying to find the best 3rd and 4th liners that could provide some salary relief in your lineups:

• Cody Eakin – C - VGK - $3200 DK/$4100 FD

• Mark Jankowski – C - CGY - $3200 DK/$3500 FD

• Evan Rodrigues – C – BUF - $3500 DK/$3300 FD

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