SABRES
Tage Thompson, Alex Tuch, Rasmus Dahlin
If this winds up being one of those Buffalo 6 goal nights then I can’t see winning anything significant without some Thompson, Tuch, Skinner or Dahlin exposure. Minnesota’s on a B2B and routinely giving up 4+ GA on nights.
KNIGHTS
Jack Eichel, Jonathan Marchessault, Ivan Barbashev, Alex Pietrangelo
Gotta keep picking on the Sharks even as they improve. They’ll be on a B2B and 3 in 4 nights tonight in Vegas. Enough said.
DEVILS
Dawson Mercer, Timo Meier, Dougie Hamilton
Choose your fighter spot. New Jersey’s without their two best centers and facing a Washington team not defending centers well, so it opens up taking a shot on Michael McLeod ($3500) and Dawson Mercer ($4100) as values. New Jersey is still better than Washington and I would back them even without the center depth.
When I list my ‘Key 3’ and then do my Slapshot picks at the end they get a little redundant, so I am just moving that down to the bottom and putting more info in this area on the full positional breakdowns as I expect that to result in better content for you.
POSITIONAL RANKINGS
CENTERS
- Jack Eichel – $7800
- Tage Thompson – $8000
- Michael McLeod – $3500 … Assuming he will be on the top line tonight, this is a value plug to allow for Tage or Eichel to work out.
- Ryan Hartman – $5800
WINGS
- Alex Tuch – $6100 … Prime spot for the Sabres at home against the Wild who aren’t defending well. He’s taken 5+ SOG in each of the last two games, has a top 3 DVP matchup tonight and is probably 1k too cheap here too.
- Jonathan Huberdeau – $4400 … We’re looking for some value and Huberdeau should be on the top line while getting PP1 time against a PK unit for Toronto which is only killing 71% of penalties. He hasn’t shot the puck much even when he gets 20+ minutes, but with the PP time likely in his favor & a nice value spot I can see an assist or maybe a lucky goal from Hubes.
- Jonathan Marchessault – $6800
- Tyler Toffoli – $7700
DEFENSE
- Alex Pietrangelo – $6000
- Cam Fowler – $3900
- John Carlson – $6800
- Travis Sanheim – $5500
- Cam York – $3600
- Vitek Vanecek – Devils – $8200
- Joseph Woll – Maple Leafs – $8100
LINE LOCK(S) OF THE NIGHT:
Jack Eichel, Jonathan Marchessault, Ivan Barbashev – Knights
FAVORITE ONE OFF STUD FORWARDS:
Alex Tuch – Sabres
FAVORITE ONE OFF VALUE:
Cam Fowler – Ducks