Sunday, March 18th
A few different slates today, I am going to walk through the 5 game 3pm Early only slate in this write-up and do a mini write-up for the other two slates. So the five games in this write-up include,
- Detroit @ Colorado … I wonder if I am going to write-up this game? (Sarcasm)
- Calgary @ Vegas
- Edmonton @ Tampa Bay
- Carolina @ NY Islanders
- Washington @ Philly … Oh. This game looks fun.
TOP STACK
Colorado … MacKinnon-Rantanen-Landeskog-Barrie
Let’s make this pretty clear. Nate MacKinnon is really what everyone thinks Sidney Crosby should be for fantasy. Mac is steady, he’s constant and he’s got a solid match-up against the Red Wings this afternoon at home. They’re the stop stack and a pricey one, so look at either going just Mac and Barrie or Mac + Landeskog to save some money, but if you dont want to play MacKinnon, then just move on completely from this game.
OTHER STACKS
Philadelphia … Couturier-Girioux-Konecny — The Sean Couturier goal drought ends today.
Edmonton … McDavid, Nugent-Hopkins, Rattie … Some serious value with min priced Ty Rattie playing with McDavid and getting some PP time… Tampa’s gonna likely start Domingue in net and the Tampa defense has been really poor over the last month or so.
Tampa 2 … Point-Johnson-Gourde — Tampa has looked really bad lately and I think we get a close low scoring game with the Tampa 2 line doing the damage
CENTER & WING COMBO’S
- MacKinnon & Rantanen
- McDavid & Rattie
- Barzal & Eberle … Skating with Tavares (who I don’t want today), but I love the value these guys bring.
- Backstrom & Oshie — Oshie finally looks like his old self and Backstrom is gonna find the net again today.
- Couturier & Konecny
- Point & Johnson
STUD ONE OFFS
- James Neal (Vegas)
- Johnny Gaudreau (Flames)
- Nick Backstrom (Caps)
TOP DEFENSEMAN
- Justin Faulk (CAR)
- Dougie Hamilton (CGY)
- John Carlson (WSH)
- Shayne Gostisbehere (PHI)
- Tyson Barrie (COL)
- Brett Pesce (CAR) … Value defenseman vs a poor Isles team. Great value.
- Darnell Nurse (EDM) … Other value
GOALIES
Semyon Varlamov (COL) … Almost a no brainer on FanDuel today.
Louis Domingue (TB) … DraftKings play, he is only $6800 and the Bolts need this win to get right. They’re much better than Edmonton and a goalie who should win for 6800? I’ll take my chances here.
LINE LOCK OF THE AFTERNOON: Couturier-Giroux-Konecny (Philadelphia)
ONE OFF STUD WINGER: James Neal (Vegas)
ONE OFF VALUE WINGER: Ty Rattie (Edmonton)
TOP DEFENSEMAN: Justin Faulk (Carolina)
