Top NHL Plays 12/28 | Get it in Before 2018 🎉

December 28, 2017

This is made purely of a labor of love from LineStarMVP's + NHL super fans = ZeroInDenver & Jdrujon from LineStar NHL chat.

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Three Stars of the Night

These are our three favorites on the slate tonight, regardless of price:

Line Stacks

Overall, the top two lines for Tampa will be popular tonight, but if you want to look at lower-owned options with similar upside, here are our favorites tonight:

  • VAN2– Vanek-Gagner-Boeser – ($13000 DK/$15600 FD) The Canucks go up against Forsberg tonight, who has a 3.71 GAA and .894 save percentage on the road this season.

  • TOR1 – Hyman-Matthews-Nylander- ($16900 DK/$17300 FD) I normally fade Toronto because it’s hard to tell where the scoring is going to come from, but I like the Matthews line largely based on the narrative the Matthews is from Arizona.

  • CGY1 – Gaudreau-Monahan-Ferland ($17300 DK/$19900 FD) Jones hasn’t been great over the past month (.885 save % and 3.57 GAA), which is why I want to target against him tonight. On the road this year, the Gaudreau line has a 55.8 CF% with 10 goals scored in 15 games.

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

Frederick Andersen does what it takes

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......

  • Frederick Andersen – TOR - $8400 DK/$8600 FD

  • Andrei Vasilevskiy – TB - $8300 DK/$9500 FD

  • Marc-Andre Fleury – VGK - $7600 DK/$7900 FD

  • Braden Holtby – WAS - $7500 DK/$9300 FD GPP

  • James Reimer – FLA - $7300 DK/$7500 FD - GPP

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

Punts of the Night 👍

For a small slate, there are surprisingly a lot of options. Here are our favorites:

  • Brayden McNabb – D – VGK $3100 DK/$3700 FD

  • Alex Tuch – W – VGK - $3600 DK/$3400 FD

  • Markus Granlund – C – VAN - $3100 DK/$3500 FD

  • Gustav Forsling – D – CHI - $3400 DK/$$3700 FD

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

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