Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Daily Fantasy Hockey Morning Coffee. Today we have a small three-game slate to work with for our daily fantasy hockey needs.
Tonight’s Slate:
Nashville Predators @ Toronto Maple Leafs (Toronto, -120, 5.5 over/under)
Boston Bruins @ New York Rangers (Boston, -125, 5.5 over/under)
Edmonton Oilers @ Los Angeles Kings (Los Angeles, -130, 5.5 over/under)
Toronto and Nashville have both been hot recently but the team I want to start my roster construction around tonight is the Boston Bruins. Even though Boston is on the second night of a back-to-back they get Brad Marchand back on that first line — a line that might just be the best in the NHL this season. And Boston is lucky enough to draw a Rangers team that has lost three straight games and six of their past seven.
Last month New York allowed a league third-worst 3.67 goals against per game and had penalty kill rate of just 71.9 percent. Over their past 10 games the Rangers have a CF% of 42.82 percent — second-worst in the NHL. Additionally New York’s SCA/60 of 30.51 is seventh-worst in the league and their HDCA/60 of 12.1 over their past 10 games is the eighth-worst in the league.
On the other side we have a Bruins team that led the NHL in scoring in January with an average of 3.82 goals for per game. Over their past 10 games Boston has a CF% of 56.81 percent — best in the NHL. Boston’s SCF/60 of 29.27 is good or 12th in the NHL over the past 10 games — and this was largely without Marchand and Charlie McAvoy.
Boston is 8-0-2 over their past 10 road games (not including last night) and I’ll look for Boston to continue their road success tonight.
Our Boston Snapshot
| Scor | Scor | Scor | Goal | Goal | Goal | Assi | Assi | Assi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Pos | G | A | PTS | EV | PP | SH | EV | PP | SH | S | BLK |
| Brad Marchand | LW | 21 | 29 | 50 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 104 | 17 |
| David Pastrnak | RW | 21 | 28 | 49 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 139 | 18 |
| Patrice Bergeron | C | 22 | 22 | 44 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 163 | 36 |
| Danton Heinen | C | 11 | 24 | 35 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 80 | 26 |
| Torey Krug | D | 8 | 23 | 31 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 103 | 44 |
| Jake Debrusk | LW | 11 | 15 | 26 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 101 | 21 |
| David Krejci | C | 9 | 17 | 26 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 59 | 21 |
| Charlie McAvoy | D | 5 | 20 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 51 | 56 |
| Riley Nash | C | 7 | 15 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 79 | 46 |
| Ryan Spooner | C | 8 | 13 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 50 | 9 |
| David Backes | RW | 9 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 94 | 17 |
| Zdeno Chara | D | 4 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 88 |
| Tim Schaller | C | 7 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 44 |
| Kevan Miller | D | 1 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 56 |
| Sean Kuraly | C | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 15 |
| Noel Acciari | C | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 24 |
| Matt Grzelcyk | D | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 20 |
| Brandon Carlo | D | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 55 |
| Frank Vatrano | C | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 8 |
| Peter Cehlarik | LW | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Austin Czarnik | C | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Adam McQuaid | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| Team Total | 161 | 278 | 439 | 122 | 35 | 4 | 206 | 67 | 5 | 1604 | 683 |
Our Boston Stacks (This is my best guess without seeing any updated line information for Boston this morning)
Line One
BRAD MARCHAND $8.3K
PATRICE BERGERON $8.1K
DAVID PASTRNAK $7.6K
Line Two
DANTON HEINEN $4.6K
DAVID KREJCI $5.8K
RYAN SPOONER $4.8K
Power Play Stack
BRAD MARCHAND
PATRICE BERGERON
DAVID PASTRNAK
TOREY KRUG (D) $5.6K
Power Play Two Stack
DANTON HEINEN
DAVID KREJCI
RYAN SPOONER
CHARLIE MCAVOY (D) $4.3K
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