Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 12/04/19
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
- – [TOR] @Mitch Marner (ankle) has been activated from IR and is expected to return after an 11-game absence.
- – [COL] @Mikko Rantanen (ankle) will play in Toronto after leaving Monday’s game early.
- – [COL] @Matt Calvert (head) will play for the first time since November 16th.
- – [PIT] @Stefan Noesen signed with the Penguins on Monday and will make his Penguins debut vs. the Blues.
- – [STL] @Carl Gunnarsson (illness) will return to the St. Louis blueline after a three-game absence.
- – [EDM] @Kris Russell (personal) will be back in the Oilers lineup vs. Ottawa.
- – [EDM] @Joel Persson was called up on Tuesday and will play vs. Ottawa.
GAMETIME DECISION
- – [WSH] @Nicklas Backstrom (upper-body) is questionable to play Wednesday in Los Angeles.
OUT
- – [COL] @Gabriel Landeskog (lower-body) practiced Monday and Wednesday but will not play in Toronto.
- – [COL] @Andre Burakovsky (upper-body) took part in the morning skate but will miss his third straight game.
- – [COL] @Vladislav Kamenev will not play in Toronto due to an illness.
- – [PIT] @Patric Hornqvist will be out longer-term with a lower-body injury.
- – [PIT] @Brian Dumoulin underwent surgery to repair lacerated tendons in his left ankle and is expected to miss at least eight weeks.
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
Avalanche @ Maple Leafs (7:00 pm)
| Donskoi – MacKinnon – Rantanen Calvert – Kadri – Compher Nichushkin – Bellemare – O’Connor Nieto – Jost – Tynan Makar – Zadorov Girard – Rosen Cole – Graves | Johnsson – Matthews – Nylander Mikheyev – Tavares – Marner Hyman – Kerfoot – Kapanen Engvall – Gauthier – Timashov Rielly – Ceci Muzzin – Holl Dermott – Barrie |
Blues @ Penguins (8:00 pm)
| Schwartz – Schenn – Walker Sanford – O’Reilly – Perron Barbashev – Bozak – Thomas MacEachern – de la Rose – Brouwer Gunnarsson – Pietrangelo Bouwmeester – Parayko Dunn – Faulk | Guentzel – Malkin – Simon Galchenyuk – McCann – Noesen Kahun – Blueger – Tanev Aston-Reese – Blandisi – Lafferty Johnson – Letang Pettersson – Marino Riikola – Ruhwedel |
Senators @ Oilers (9:30 pm)
| Tkachuk – Pageau – Duclair Namestnikov – Anisimov – White Paul – L. Brown – C. Brown Ennis – Tierney – Beaudin Chabot – Hainsey Borowiecki – Zaitsev Brannstrom – DeMelo | Neal – McDavid – Archibald Khaira – Draisaitl – Gagner Nygard – Sheahan – Chiasson Granlund – Haas – P. Russell Klefbom – Larsson Nurse – Bear K. Russell – Persson |
Capitals @ Kings (10:00 pm)
| Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Wilson Vrana – Eller – Oshie Hagelin – Boyd – Panik Leipsic – Dowd – Hathaway Kempny – Carlson Orlov – Jensen Siegenthaler – Gudas | Iafallo – Kopitar – Brown Carter – Prokhorkin – Toffoli Kempe – Lizotte – Wagner Clifford – Amadio – Lewis Ryan – Doughty Hutton – Roy MacDermid – Walker |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
1 | ✅ Mikko Koskinen – vs. OTT ($8,300) | 1 | 1 |
2 | ✅ Jordan Binnington – @ PIT ($7,600) | 2 | 2 |
3 | 🅾️ Ilya Samsonov – @ LAK ($8,000) | 3 | 3 |
t-4 | ✅ Philipp Grubauer – @ TOR ($7,400) | 4 | 5 |
t-4 | ✅ Tristan Jarry – vs. STL ($7,800) | 5 | 4 |
6 | ✅ Frederik Andersen – vs. COL ($8,000) | 6 | 6 |
7 | ✅ Jonathan Quick – vs. WSH ($6,900) | 7 | 7 |
8 | 🅾️ Marcus Hogberg – @ EDM ($6,900) | 8 | 8 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | |
| C | Nikolai Prokhorkin ($2,500) | Tyler Bozak ($3,500) |
| W | Stefan Noesen ($2,500) | Dominik Simon ($2,800) |
| D | Ian Cole ($3,000) | Travis Dermott ($2,500) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Nathan MacKinnon ($8,600) | 23.29 DK Points |
| W | Alex Ovechkin ($8,400) | 16.68 DK Points |
| D | John Carlson ($7,000) | 13.92 DK Points |
| G | Mikko Koskinen ($8,300) | 13.66 DK Points |
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DFS Lines to Target:
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3. Los Angeles 1 (Iafallo – Kopitar – Brown)
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