Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 10/03/19
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
- — [TBL] @Victor Hedman (undisclosed) will play in the Lightning’s season opener.
- — [TBL] @Tyler Johnson (undisclosed) will play Thursday against the Panthers.
- — [PIT] @Sidney Crosby (foot) will play in the Penguins’ season opener.
- — [CAR] @Ryan Dzingel (lower-body) will play in the Hurricanes season opener.
- — [CGY] @Mikael Backlund (lower-body) will play in the Flames season opener in Colorado.
- — [ANA] @Sam Steel (lower-body) is “ready to rip” in the season opener.
- — [ARI] @Oliver Ekman-Larsson (illness) is expected to play Thursday in Anaheim.
GAMETIME DECISION
- — [PIT] @Alex Galchenyuk (lower-body) skated again on Thursday but remains a game-time decision vs. the Sabres.
- — [BOS] @David Krejci (lower-body) will be a game-time decision in Dallas.
- — [ANA] @Ondrej Kase (undisclosed) is questionable for Thursday’s game vs. the Coyotes.
OUT
- — [WPG] @Bryan Little (concussion) is making progress but will not play in the Jets’ season opener.
- — [BUF] @Brandon Montour is expected to miss the first few weeks of the regular season.
- — [MIN] @Greg Pateryn underwent bilateral core muscle surgery and will miss six weeks.
- — [DAL] @Corey Perry (foot) will miss at least two more weeks.
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
Winnipeg Jets @ New York Rangers [7:00pm]
| Ehlers — Scheifele — Wheeler Connor — Copp — Laine Perreault — Lowry — Bourque Appleton — Letestu — Roslovic Morrissey — Kulikov Heinola — Pionk Bitetto — Poolman | Panarin — Zibanejad — Buchnevich Kreider — Strome — Kakko Namestnikov — Howden — Fast Lemieux — Andersson — Smith Skjei — Trouba Staal — DeAngelo Hajek — Fox |
Florida Panthers @ Tampa Bay Lightning [7:00pm]
| Huberdeau — Barkov — Dadonov Hoffman — Trocheck — Connolly Vatrano — Borgstrom — Malgin Hunt — Acciari — Sceviour Matheson — Edkblad Yandle — Brown Weegar — Stralman | Stamkos — Johnson — Kucherov Killorn — Cirelli — Palat Verhaeghe — Gourde — Joseph Maroon — Smith — Witkowski McDonagh — Cernak Hedman — Shattenkirk Coburn — Sergachev |
Buffalo Sabres @ Pittsburgh Penguins [7:00pm]
| Olofsson — Eichel — Reinhart Skinner — Johansson — Sobotka Vesey — Mittelstadt — Sheary Girgensons — Larsson — Okposo Dahlin — Miller McCabe — Ristolainen Scandella — Jokiharju | Guentzel — Crosby — Hornqvist Galchenyuk — Malkin — Tanev McCann — Bjugstad — Kahun Aston-Reese — Blueger — Simon Dumoulin — Letang Johnson — Schultz Pettersson — Gudbranson |
Montreal Canadiens @ Carolina Hurricanes [7:00pm]
| Tatar — Danault — Gallagher Lehkonen — Domi — Suzuki Drouin — Kotkaniemi — Armia Byron — Thompson — Weal Mete — Weber Chiarot — Petry Kulak — Fleury | Niederreiter — Aho — McGinn Svechnikov — Staal — Teravainen Dzingel — Haula — Martinook Foegele — Wallmark — Necas Slavin — Hamilton Edmundson — Pesce Gardiner — Fleury |
Minnesota Wild @ Nashville Predators [8:00pm]
| Parise — Staal — Zuccarello Zucker — Koivu — Fiala Greenway — Kunin — Donato Foligno — Eriksson Ek — Hartman Suter — Dumba Brodin — Spurgeon Soucy — Hunt | Smith — Johansen — Arvidsson Forsberg — Duchene — Granlund Grimaldi — Turris — Jarnkrok Sissons — Bonino — Watson Josi — Ellis Ekholm — Fabbro Hamhuis — Weber |
Boston Bruins @ Dallas Stars [8:30pm]
| Marchand — Bergeron — Pastrnak DeBrusk — Krejci — Kuhlman Heinen — Coyle — Backes Kuraly — Lindholm — Wagner Chara — McAvoy Krug — Carlo Grzelcyk — Clifton | Benn — Seguin — Pavelski Dickinson — Hintz — Radulov Cogliano — Faksa — Comeau Janmark — Dowling — Gurianov Lindell — Klingberg Heiskanen — Sekera Oleksiak — Polak |
Calgary Flames @ Colorado Avalanche [9:00pm]
| Gaudreau — Monahan — Lindholm Tkachuk — Backlund — Frolik Lucic — Ryan — Bennett Mangiapane — Jankowski — Czarnik Giordano — Brodie Hanifin — Hamonic Kylington — Andersson | Landeskog — MacKinnon — Rantanen Jost — Kadri — Burakovsky Nieto — Compher — Donskoi Calvert — Bellemare — Nichushkin Girard — Makar Zadorov — Johnson Graves — Timmins |
Arizona Coyotes @ Anaheim Ducks [10:00pm]
| Keller — Stepan — Kessel Schmaltz — Soderberg — Garland Grabner — Richardson — Hinostroza Crouse — Dvorak — Fischer Ekman-Larsson — Demers Goligoski — Hjalmarsson Chychrun — Oesterle | Comtois — Getzlaf — Terry Rakell — Steel — Silfverberg Ritchie — Henrique — Jones Grant — Shore — Rowney Lindholm — Manson Guhle — Fowler Larsson — Del Zotto |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
t-1 | ✅ Matt Murray — vs. BUF ($8,300) | 2 | 1 |
t-1 | 🅿️ Pekka Rinne — vs. MIN ($8,200) | 1 | 2 |
3 | ✅ Darcy Kuemper — @ ANA ($7,300) | 3 | 3 |
4 | ✅ Andrei Vasilevskiy — vs. FLA ($8,400) | 5 | 4 |
t-5 | ✅ Henrik Lundqvist — vs. WPG ($7,600) | 4 | 7 |
t-5 | 🅿️ Petr Mrazek — vs. MTL ($7,800) | 6 | 5 |
7 | ✅ Philipp Grubauer — vs. CGY ($7,900) | 7 | 6 |
t-8 | ✅ Ben Bishop — vs. BOS ($7,700) | 8 | 9 |
t-8 | ✅ Tuukka Rask — @ DAL ($7,600) | 9 | 8 |
10 | ✅ Carey Price — @ CAR ($7,900) | 10 | 10 |
11 | ✅ Devan Dubnyk — @ NSH ($6,900) | 12 | 11 |
12 | ✅ John Gibson — vs. ARI ($7,900) | 11 | 13 |
13 | ✅ Sergei Bobrovsky — @ TBL ($7,100) | 13 | 12 |
14 | ✅ Connor Hellebuyck — @ NYR ($7,500) | 14 | 14 |
15 | ✅ David Rittich — @ COL ($7,400) | 15 | 15 |
16 | ✅ Carter Hutton — @ PIT ($6,800) | 16 | 16 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | |
| C | Roope Hintz ($3,800) | Derek Stepan ($4,800) |
| W | Victor Olofsson ($3,500) | Brock McGinn ($3,200) |
| D | Josh Morrissey ($4,500) | T.J. Brodie ($3,400) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Sebastian Aho ($6,200) |
| W | Phil Kessel ($5,900) |
| D | Kris Letang ($6,400) |
| G | Tuukka Rask ($7,600) |
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