Welcome to Friday edition of the Daily Fantasy Hockey Morning Coffee. We end the week with a small five-game slate to work with for our daily fantasy hockey needs. There is one game that jumps right off the page and a few other spots I want to work with when constructing lineups tonight.
Columbus Blue Jackets @ Pittsburgh Penguins (Pittsburgh, -155, 6 over/under)
Edmonton Oilers @ Carolina Hurricanes (Carolina, -160, 5.5 over/under)
Another night, another game with a six over/under. This one should be fun. On the season Pittsburgh leads the NHL with 3.55 goals for per game and sport a league-best 4.00 home goals per game. Last month Columbus allowed 3.21 goals against per game — 11th highest in the NHL. While Columbus has a nice season number with just 2.39 goals against per game, last month Columbus’ xGA/60 on the road stood at 2.89. In January, Pittsburgh had a home xGF/60 rate of 2.92.
What’s interesting is that at home Pittsburgh had an xGA/60 rate of 3.17 last month so we’ll certainly want both sides of this game. If multi-entering a tournament I’d want shares of Pittsburgh’s top two lines:
Matt Cullen $3.3K (8G, 9A, 3 PPP, 43 SOG)
Sidney Crosby $9K (28G, 28A, 17 PPP, 140 SOG)
Patric Hornqvist $7.3K (14G, 16A, 12 PPP, 149 SOG)
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