Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the daily fantasy hockey morning coffee. I hope your halloween went well whether you were walking with your kids or pounding beers behind the bowling alley — both are memory makers. Tonight we have a mid-week five-game slate that features a McDavid vs. Crosby matchup in what should be a great game and some other nice options around the NHL.
Tonight’s slate:
Philadelphia Flyers @ Chicago Blackhawks (Chicago, -140, 5.5 over/under)
Pittsburgh Penguins @ Edmonton Oilers (Edmonton, -120, 6 over/under)
Toronto Maple Leafs @ Anaheim Ducks (Anaheim, -108, 5.5 over/under)
New Jersey Devils @ Vancouver Canucks (Vancouver, -120, 5.5 over/under)
Nashville Predators @ San Jose Sharks (San Jose, -125, 5.5 over/under)
The game I really want to target is the Pittsburgh vs. Edmonton game tonight — and I want both sides of this one as I think we’ll see a high scoring game. Pittsburgh has allowed a league third-worst 3.85 goals against per game and seven goals against on Oct. 29. Pittsburgh has a CA/60 of 62.96, a league-high 33.16 SCA/60 and have a league third-highest HDCA/60 of 12.59. Edmonton should get plenty of scoring chances tonight.
In terms of SCF/60 Edmonton has a league-high number of 37.17 and a league-high HDCF/60 of 15. While I do want shares of both teams I’m going to lean on Edmonton more — and if you made me pick just one I’d go with Edmonton tonight. Of course this comes with the cavaet that Edmonton has a scored a league-worst 2.20 goals for per game and have allowed a league ninth-highest 3.30 goals per game. Eventually the tide will turn for Edmonton and I’d rather be out in front of that wave rather than chasing it.
Leon Draisaitl has a career shooting percentage of 13.7 percent and last season had a shooting percentage of 16.9. He currently has a shooting percentage of just 5.9 percent — the hope is as we see (hopefully) his shooting percentage get back to his career norm we see an overall rise Edmonton’s production.
Our Edmonton Snapshot
| Scor | Scor | Scor | Goal | Goal | Goal | Goal | Assi | Assi | Assi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Pos | G | A | PTS | EV | PP | SH | GW | EV | PP | SH | S | BLK |
| Connor McDavid | C | 5 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 9 |
| Patrick Maroon | LW | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 5 |
| Leon Draisaitl | C | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 |
| Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | C | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 7 |
| Milan Lucic | LW | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 5 |
| Kris Russell | D | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 27 |
| Ryan Strome | RW | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 |
| Darnell Nurse | D | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 20 |
| Kailer Yamamoto | RW | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 3 |
| Adam Larsson | D | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 18 |
| Mark Letestu | C | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 5 |
| Oscar Klefbom | D | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 27 |
| Matt Benning | D | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 |
| Jussi Jokinen | LW | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 9 |
| Zack Kassian | RW | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| Team Total | 22 | 38 | 60 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 30 | 8 | 0 | 377 | 159 |
Our Edmonton Stacks
Line One
PATRICK MAROON $6.6K
CONNOR MCDAVID $9.3K
LEON DRAISAITL $7.5K
Line Two
MILAN LUCIC $5K
RYAN NUGENT-HOPKINS $4.9K
KAILER YAMAMOTO $4K
Power Play One Stack
PATRICK MAROON
MARK LETESTU $3.7K
DRAKE CAGGIULA $3.4K
CONNOR MCDAVID
(D) OSCAR KLEFBOM $5.4K
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