Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 02/26/20
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
- — [BUF] @Wayne Simmonds will make his Sabres debut in Colorado.
- — [COL] @Nick Cousins will make his Golden Knights debut vs. the Oilers.
- — [PIT] @Patrick Marleau will make his Penguins debut in Los Angeles.
- — [PIT] @Conor Shear will make his Penguins season debut in Los Angeles.
- — [PIT] @Evan Rodrigues will make his Penguins debut in Los Angeles.
OUT
- — [COL] @Andre Burakovsky (illness) is doubtful to play vs. the Sabres.
- — [COL] @Matt Nieto (undisclosed) is doubtful to play vs. the Sabres.
- — [BUF] @Dominik Kahun (knee) is not quite ready to make his Sabres debut.
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
Sabres @ Avalanche (8:00 pm)
| Olofsson – Eichel – Reinhart Skinner – Johansson – Simmonds Vesey – Lazar – Frolik Girgensons – Larsson – Okposo Montoir – Ristolainen McCabe – Jokiharju Dahlin – Miller | Landeskog – MacKinnon – Nichushkin Jost – Compher – Donskoi Namestnikov – Bellemare – Kaut Barberio – Kamenev – O’Connor Graves – Makar Girard – Johnson Cole – Zadorov |
Oilers @ Golden Knights (10:30 pm)
| Ennis – McDavid – Athanasiou Nugent-Hopkins – Draisaitl – Chiasson Khaira – Sheahan – Archibald Granlund – Haas – Russell Nurse – Bear Jones – Larsson Lagesson – Green | Marchessault – Stastny – Smith Pacioretty – Karlsson – Stone Cousins – Stephenson – Roy Carrier – Nosek – Reaves McNabb – Schmidt Martinez – Theodore Holden – Whitecloud |
Penguins @ Kings (10:30 pm)
| Zucker – Crosby – Sheary Rust – Malkin – Hornqvist McCann – Blueger – Tanev Marleau – Rodrigues – Simon Johnson – Letang Pettersson – Schultz Riikola – Ruhwedel | Kempe – Kopitar – Brown Iafallo – Lizotte – Lewis Moore – Vilardi – Frk Prokhorkin – Amadio – Wagner Ryan – Doughty Hutton – Roy MacDermid – Walker |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
1 | 🅾️ Pavel Francouz – vs. BUF ($8,500) | 2 | 1 |
2 | ✅ Marc-Andre Fleury – vs. EDM ($8,300) | 1 | 3 |
3 | 🅾️ Matt Murray – @ LAK ($7,800) | 3 | 2 |
t-4 | ✅ Carter Hutton – @ COL ($6,900) | 4 | 5 |
t-4 | 🅾️ Jonathan Quick – vs. PIT ($7,500) | 5 | 4 |
6 | 🅾️ Mikko Koskinen – @ VGK ($6,800) | 6 | 6 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | Optimizer | |
| C | J.T. Compher ($3,900) | Tyson Jost ($2,500) | J.T. Compher ($3,900) |
| W | Valeri Nichushkin ($3,500) | Adrian Kempe ($3,600) | Valeri Nichushkin ($3,500) |
| D | Ethan Bear ($3,700) | Caleb Jones ($2,600) | Ian Cole ($3,800) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Nathan MacKinnon ($8,100) | 16.35 DK Points |
| W | Max Pacioretty ($7,700) | 14.90 DK Points |
| D | Kris Letang ($6,200) | 12.14 DK Points |
| G | Matt Murray ($7,800) | 15.45 DK Points |
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DFS Lines to Target:
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4. Los Angeles 1 (Kempe – Kopitar – Brown)
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