Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 02/28/20
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] @Alexander Wennberg (upper-body) has been activated from IR and will play vs. the Wild.
- – [CBJ] @Riley Nash (undisclosed) will return to the lineup vs. the Wild.
- – [VGK] @Gage Quinney was recalled from Chicago (AHL) and will draw into the lineup vs. the Sabres.
- – [BUF] @Dominik Kahun (lower-body) will make his Sabres debut in Vegas.
GAMETIME DECISION
- – [NYR] @Pavel Buchnevich (undisclosed) will be a game-time decision in Philadelphia.
- – [COL] @Andre Burakovsky (illness) will be a game-time decision in Carolina.
- – [PIT] @Jared McCann (upper-body) will be a game-time decision in Anaheim.
OUT
- – [CBJ] @Jakob Lilja will be a healthy scratch vs. the Wild.
- – [CBJ] @Calvin Thurkauf was reassigned to Cleveland (AHL).
- – [VGK] @Mark Stone (lower-body) will not play vs. the Sabres.
- – [BUF] @Michael Frolik will be a healthy scratch in Vegas.
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
Wild @ Blue Jackets (7:00 pm)
| Mayhew – Staal – Fiala Parise – Eriksson Ek – Greenway Foligno – Galchenyuk – Zuccarello Donato – Koivu – Hartman Suter – Spurgeon Brodin – Dumba Hunt – Pateryn | Foligno – Jenner – Gerbe Nyquist – Dubois – Matteau Stenlund – Wennberg – Bemstrom Shore – Nash – Robinson Werenski – Nutivaara Gavrikov – Savard Harrington – Peeke |
Rangers @ Flyers (7:00 pm)
| Kreider – Zibanejad – Chytil Panarin – Strome – Fast Di Giuseppe – Howden – Kakko Lemieux – McKegg – Gauthier Smith – Trouba Lindgren – Fox Staal – DeAngelo | Giroux – Couturier – Voracek Laughton – Hayes – Konecny van Riemsdyk – Grant – Pitlick Raffl – Thompson – Aube-Kubel Provorov – Niskanen Sanheim – Myers Hagg – Braun |
Avalanche @ Hurricanes (7:00 pm)
| Landeskog – MacKinnon – Nichushkin Jost – Compher – Donskoi Namestnikov – Bellemare – Kaut Nieto – Kamenev – O’Connor Graves – Makar Girard – Johnson Zadorov – Cole | Svechnikov – Aho – Teravainen Foegele – Staal – Williams Niederreiter – Trocheck – Necas Dzingel – Martinook – McGinn Edmundson – Slavin Gardiner – van Riemsdyk Fleury – Skjei |
Penguins @ Ducks (10:00 pm)
| Zucker – Crosby – Sheary Rust – Malkin – Hornqvist Marleau – Blueger – Tanev Lafferty – Rodrigues – Simon Johnson – Letang Pettersson – Schultz Riikola – Ruhwedel | Milano – Getzlaf – Rakell Heinen – Henrique – Sherwood Jones – Steel – Silfverberg Deslauriers – Agozzino – Rowney Lindholm – Manson Larsson – Del Zotto Djoos – Irwin |
Sabres @ Golden Knights (10:00 pm)
| Olofsson – Eichel – Reinhart Girgensons – Larsson – Okposo Skinner – Lazar – Simmonds Kahun – Johansson – Vesey Montour – Ristolainen McCabe – Jokiharju Dahlin – Miller | Marchessault – Stastny – Smith Pacioretty – Karlsson – Cousins Carrier – Stephenson – Roy Quinney – Nosek – Reaves McNabb – Schmidt Martinez – Theodore Holden – Whitecloud |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock |
1 | ✅ Robin Lehner – vs. BUF ($8,400) | 1 |
2 | 🅾️ Matt Murray – @ ANA ($8,100) | 2 |
3 | ✅ Carter Hart – vs. NYR ($8,200) | 3 |
4 | ✅ Alex Stalock – @ CBJ ($7,200) | 4 |
5 | ✅ Joonas Korpisalo – vs. MIN ($8,000) | 5 |
6 | ✅ Pavel Francouz – @ CAR ($7,700) | 6 |
7 | ✅ Alexandar Georgiev – @ PHI ($7,500) | 7 |
8 | ✅ Anton Forsberg – vs. COL ($7,500) | 8 |
9 | ✅ Carter Hutton – @ VGK ($7,000) | 9 |
10 | 🅾️ John Gibson – vs. PIT ($7,100) | 10 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Optimizer | |
| C | Alex Galchenyuk ($3,100) | Derek Grant ($3,500) |
| W | Nino Niederreiter ($3,100) | Scott Laughton ($3,800) |
| D | Justin Schultz ($3,600) | Erik Johnson ($3,700) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Nathan MacKinnon ($8,700) | 15.40 DK Points |
| W | Max Pacioretty ($8,400) | 15.03 DK Points |
| D | Kris Letang ($6,800) | 11.00 DK Points |
| G | Robin Lehner ($8,400) | 16.10 DK Points |
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5. Minnesota 1 (Mayhew – Staal – Fiala)
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