Welcome to Monday morning edition of the daily fantasy hockey morning coffee. We have a nice seven-game slate to work with for our DFS needs tonight. I’ll look at the top three teams I’ll want to stack.
Tonight’s slate (my top tournament stacks in bold):
Arizona Coyotes @ Philadelphia Flyers (Philadelphia, -200, 6 over/under)
Boston Bruins @ Columbus Blue Jackets (Columbus, -150, 5.5 over/under)
Vegas Golden Knights @ New York Islanders (N.Y., -190, 5.5 over/under)
Montreal Canadiens @ Ottawa Senators (even, 5.5 over/under)
Tampa Bay Lightning @ Florida Panthers (Tampa Bay, -115, 5.5 over/under)
L.A. Kings @ St. Louis Blues (St. Louis, -130, 5.5 over/under)
Dallas Stars @ Vancouver Canucks (Dallas, -125, 6 over/under)
Toronto Maple Leafs @ San Jose Sharks (San Jose, -120, 6 over/under)
Tonight we’ll certainly pick on the Arizona Coyotes with the Philadelphia Flyers. Even though they will likely be a bit chalky I don’t want to completely ignore Philly in tournaments. Arizona has simply been awful this season with a league-worst 4.36 goals against per game and a league-worst combined goaltender save percentage of just .861. And things don’t get any better when you look at Arizona’s special teams — their 69.0 percent penalty rate is also dead last in the NHL. Oh, and they have yet to win a game this season going 0-10-1. This is somewhat tongue in cheek, but I can see all six of those in Vegas over/under goals be tallied on Philly’s side.
On the other end we have a Philadelphia team that has scored a league seventh-best 3.45 goals for per game this season and a power play that has clicked a nice rate of 21.4 percent. Philadephia has played six games on the road this season and have averaged a league seventh-best 3.50 goals for per game.
Our Philadelphia Snapshot:
| Scor | Scor | Scor | Scor | Goal | Goal | Goal | Goal | Assi | Assi | Assi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Pos | GP | G | A | PTS | EV | PP | SH | GW | EV | PP | SH | S | BLK |
| Jakub Voracek | RW | 11 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 4 |
| Sean Couturier | C | 11 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 7 |
| Shayne Gostisbehere | D | 11 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 28 | 11 |
| Claude Giroux | C | 11 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 8 |
| Wayne Simmonds | RW | 11 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 15 |
| Valtteri Filppula | C | 11 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 13 |
| Travis Konecny | C | 11 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 4 |
| Ivan Provorov | D | 11 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 27 |
| Scott Laughton | C | 11 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 |
| Jordan Weal | C | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 |
| Brandon Manning | D | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Nolan Patrick | C | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 |
| Dale Weise | RW | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| Radko Gudas | D | 11 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 16 |
| Taylor Leier | LW | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 |
| Team Total | 11 | 38 | 67 | 105 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 49 | 18 | 0 | 363 | 179 |
Note: Gostisbehere left last game with an injury, he still may be able to play tonight — double check his status. If he can’t go whoever replaces him at the point of the first power play unit gets a nice boost in value. He is not at this morning’s team skate …
I spy with my little eye no Shayne Gostisbehere or Nolan Patrick on the ice here at Flyers morning skate. Sam Morin not present yet.
— Greg Paone (@gpaone121) October 30, 2017
| Scor | Scor | Scor | Scor | Goal | Goal | Goal | Assi | Assi | Assi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Pos | GP | G | A | PTS | EV | PP | SH | EV | PP | SH | S | BLK |
| James Neal | LW | 9 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 6 |
| David Perron | LW | 9 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 2 |
| Reilly Smith | RW | 9 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 4 |
| Nate Schmidt | D | 9 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 17 |
| Luca Sbisa | D | 9 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 17 |
| William Karlsson | C | 9 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 |
| Cody Eakin | C | 9 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 |
| Colin Miller | D | 9 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 3 |
| Brad Hunt | D | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Oscar Lindberg | C | 9 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 |
| Jon Marchessault | C | 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 2 |
| Deryk Engelland | D | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| Brendan Leipsic | LW | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 |
| Erik Haula | LW | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
| Tomas Nosek | LW | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| Alex Tuch | RW | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
| Pierre-Edouard Bellemare | LW | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 |
| William Carrier | LW | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| Brayden McNabb | D | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| Vadim Shipachyov | LW | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Jason Garrison | D | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15 |
| Team Total | 9 | 34 | 55 | 89 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 43 | 12 | 0 | 260 | 134 |