Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 02/07/20
The Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook will be released everyday Monday-to-Friday as soon as the morning skates finish.
The Notebook includes everything you need to know to set your Season-Long and Daily Fantasy Lineups: including Injuries, Projected Lines and Pairings, Starting Goalie Rankings, Value Picks (DFS), and previews from our DFS Premium Package.
Key Injuries/Lineup Changes
IN
- — [CBJ] @Kevin Stenlund was recalled from Cleveland (AHL) and is expected to play vs. the Red Wings.
- — [TOR] @Timothy Liljegren was recalled from Toronto (AHL) and will draw into the lineup vs. the Ducks.
- — [TOR] @Kyle Clifford will make his Maple Leafs debut vs. the Ducks.
- — [BUF] @Rasmus Dahlin (upper-body) will return to the lineup on New York.
- — [DAL] @Stephen Johns will be back in the Stars lineup vs. the Wild.
OUT
- — [CBJ] @Eric Robinson is day-to-day with an undisclosed injury.
- — [DET] @Darren Helm (undisclosed) will not play in Columbus.
- — [TOR] @Frederik Andersen remains day-to-day with a neck injury.
- — [TOR] @Cody Ceci (ankle) has been placed on IR and will be re-evaluated in one month.
- — [MIN] @Andrej Sekera is expected to be a healthy scratch vs. the Wild.
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
Red Wings @ Blue Jackets (7:00 pm)
| Bertuzzi – Larkin – Fabbri Hirose – Athanasiou – Glendening Abdelkader – Filppula – Erne Smith – Ehn – Perlini Nemeth – Biega Bowey – Hronek Daley – Lindstrom | Foligno – Dubois – Bjorkstrand Nyquist – Jenner – Atkinson Milano – Nash – Bemstrom Stenlund – MacInnis – Gerbe Werenski – Jones Gavrikov – Savard Nutivaara – Harrington |
Ducks @ Maple Leafs (7:00 pm)
| Rakell – Getzlaf – Silfverberg Jones – Steel – Kase Ritchie – Henrique – Terry Deslauriers – Grant – Rowney Lindholm – Gudbranson Fowler – Manson Larsson – Holzer | Hyman – Matthews – Marner Kerfoot – Tavares – Nylander Johnsson – Engvall – Kapanen Clifford – Gauthier – Spezza Dermott – Barrie Muzzin – Holl Sandin – Liljegren |
Sabres @ Rangers (7:00 pm)
| Vesey – Eichel – Reinhart Sheary – Johansson – Frolik Skinner – Lazar – Rodrigues Girgensons – Larsson – Wilson Dahlin – Miller Montour – Ristolainen McCabe – Jokiharju | Kreider – Zibanejad – Buchnevich Panarin – Strome – Fast Lemieux – Chytil – Kakko Di Giuseppe – McKegg – Howden Skjei – Trouba Staal – DeAngelo Lindgren – Fox |
Wild @ Stars (8:30 pm)
| Parise – Staal – Zuccarello Donato – Kunin – Fiala Greenway – Eriksson Ek – Foligno Zucker – Koivu – Hartman Suter – Spurgeon Brodin – Dumba Pateryn – Hunt | Benn – Hintz – Seguin Janmark – Pavelski – Radulov Gurianov – Dickinson – Perry Cogliano – Faksa – Comeau Lindell – Klingberg Heiskanen – Polak Oleksiak – Johns |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
1 | ✅ Elvis Merzlikins – vs. DET ($8,300) | 1 | 1 |
2 | ✅ Ben Bishop – vs. MIN ($8,100) | 3 | 2 |
3 | ✅ Alexandar Georgiev – vs. BUF ($7,800) | 2 | 4 |
4 | ✅ Jack Campbell – vs. ANA ($8,200) | 4 | 3 |
5 | 🅿️ Devan Dubnyk – @ DAL ($7,200) | 5 | 5 |
6 | ✅ Ryan Miller – @ TOR ($7,000) | 6 | 6 |
t-7 | 🅾️ Jimmy Howard – @ CBJ ($6,900) | 7 | 8 |
t-7 | ✅ Carter Hutton – @ NYR ($7,400) | 8 | 7 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | Optimizer | |
| C | Filip Chytil ($3,700) | Pierre Engvall ($2,500) | Radek Faksa ($3,300) |
| W | Sonny Milano ($2,700) | Jesper Fast ($3,500) | Alexander Kerfoot ($3,600) |
| D | Timothy Liljegren ($2,500) | Justin Holl ($2,600) | Cam Fowler ($4,000) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Auston Matthews ($8,700) | 16.61 DK Points |
| W | Artemi Panarin ($8,400) | 14.75 DK Points |
| D | Jacob Trouba ($5,600) | 10.96 DK Points |
| G | Matiss Kivlenieks ($8,300) | 17.56 DK Points |
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4. Toronto 2 (Kerfoot – Tavares – Nylander)
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