Tonight we have a nine-game daily fantasy hockey slate to work with and there are three teams I want to target on this slate:
Anaheim Ducks @ Colorado Avalanche (Anaheim, -160, 5 over/under)
Pittsburgh Penguins @ Ottawa Senators (Pittsburgh, -140, 5.5 over/under)
Detroit Red Wings @ Dallas Stars (Dallas, -140, 5.5 over/under)
Anaheim heads to Colorado tonight to take on an Avalanche team that allowed a league-worst 3.93 goals against in December and allowed a seventh-worst 11 power goals last month. With the score tied in 5v5 situations Colorado has a league seventh-worst xGA/60 of 2.60. On the season Colorado is dead last in goals against per game this season with 3.31 goals against per game and third-worst with 31 power play goals allowed. We can attack Colorado from a multitude of ways.
Our top even strength stack we should look to is:
Andrew Cogliano $4.6K (10G, 10A, 97 SOG)
Ryan Kesler $7K (16G, 19A, 15 PPP, 103 SOG)
Jakob Silfverberg $5.9K (12G, 16A, 5 PPP, 119 SOG)
On the season this line has accounted for 22 goals (second-best in the NHL) and a league-leading 468 shot attempts. This line also leads the league in unblocked shot attempts at 354 (per LeftWingLock).
We should also exploit the Colorado penalty kill tonight with some combo of Anaheim’s top power play unit:
Nick Ritchie $3.8K (9G, 5A, 1 PPP, 78 SOG)
Ryan Kesler
Rickard Rakell $5.8K (16G, 7A, 7 PPP, 80 SOG)
(D) Cam Fowler $4.9K (9G, 13A, 11 PPP, 95 SOG)
(D) Sami Vatanen $5.3K (2G, 15A, 11 PPP, 55 SOG)
Even on the second night of a back-to-back I want plenty of shares of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Yesterday we went through many of Pittsburgh’s numbers and just to remind us of how dominant their offense has been it’s worth repeating today — they average 2.94 goals per game on the road, are second in the NHL with 31 power play goals, their CF/60 on the road is a league third-best 59.79, they boast an NHL third-best xGF/60 (with the game tied and at even strength) of 2.95, generate the most even strength scoring chances per 60 minutes with 11.12 (per Corsica) and last month Pittsburgh averaged a league-leading 4.27 goals per game.