Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 12/16/19
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
- — [CBJ] @Mark Dano was recalled from Cleveland (AHL) and will make his season debut on Monday.
- — [CBJ] @Kevin Stenlund was recalled from Cleveland (AHL) and will make his season debut on Monday.
- — [CBJ] @Scott Harrington will draw into the Blue Jackets lineup on Monday.
- — [OTT] @Erik Brannstrom was called-up from Belleville (AHL) and will play in Florida.
- — [OTT] @J.C. Beaudin was called-up from Belleville (AHL) and will play in Florida.
- — [STL] @Zach Sanford (upper-body) will return from a three-game absence.
- — [DAL] @Mattias Janmark (upper-body) is expected to draw back into the Stars lineup vs. Edmonton.
- — [EDM] @Joakim Nygard (undisclosed) is expected to be back in the Oilers lineup in Dallas.
OUT
- — [CBJ] @Josh Anderson (upper-body) will not play vs. the Capitals.
- — [CBJ] @Ryan Murray (upper-body) will not play vs. the Capitals.
- — [CBJ] @Sonny Milano (upper-body) will not play vs. the Capitals.
- — [CBJ] @Emil Bemstrom (ribs) has been placed on IR.
- — [NSH] @Mattias Ekholm (illness) did not skate this morning; is not expected to play in New York.
- — [NSH] @Mikael Granlund (lower-body) did not skate this morning; is not expected to play in New York.
- — [OTT] @Nikita Zaitsev (undisclosed) will not play Monday.
- — [STL] @Ivan Barbashev (upper-body) is day-to-day; won’t play vs. Colorado.
- — [DAL] @Justin Dowling is expected to be a healthy scratch vs. Edmonton.
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
Capitals @ Blue Jackets (7:00 pm)
| Ovechkin – Backstrom – Wilson Vrana – Kuznetsov – Oshie Hagelin – Eller – Panik Leipsic – Boyd – Hathaway Kempny – Carlson Orlov – Jensen Siegenthaler – Gudas | Nyquist – Jenner – Bjorkstrand Texier – Dubois – Robinson Foligno – Wennberg – Atkinson Dano – Nash – Stenlund Kukan – Jones Gavrikov – Savard Harrington – Peeke |
Predators @ Rangers (7:00 pm)
| Forsberg – Johansen – Jarnkrok Turris – Duchene – Sissons Grimaldi – Bonino – Smith Trenin – Blackwell – Watson Josi – Ellis Hamhuis – Fabbro Irwin – Weber | Kreider – Zibanejad – Buchnevich Panarin – Strome – Kakko McKegg – Chytil – Fast Lemieux – Howden – Smith Skjei – Trouba Staal – DeAngelo Lindgren – Fox |
Senators @ Panthers (7:00 pm)
| Tkachuk – Pageau – C. Brown Namestnikov – Tierney – Duclair Ennis – Anisimov – Sabourin Boedker – L. Brown – White Chabot – Hainsey Borowiecki – Goloubef Lajoie – Brannstrom | Vatrano – Barkov – Connolly Huberdeau – Trocheck – Acciari Hoffman – Boyle – Dadonov Sceviour – Toninato- Pysyk Weegar – Ekblad Matheson – Stralman Yandle – Brown |
Avalanche @ Blues (8:00 pm)
| Burakovsky – MacKinnon – Rantanen Landeskog – Kadri – Donskoi Nichushkin – Bellemare – Calvert Nieto – Jost – Compher Girard – Zadorov Cole – Graves Rosen – Barberio | Schwartz – Schenn – Kyrou Sanford – O’Reilly – Perron Steen – Thomas – Bozak MacEachern – de la Rose – Sundqvist Pietrangelo – Faulk Bouwmeester – Parayko Dunn – Bortuzzo |
Oilers @ Stars (8:30 pm)
| Nygard – McDavid – Kassian Neal – Draisaitl – Gagner Khaira – Nugent-Hopkins – Chiasson Haas – Sheahan – Archibald Klefbom – Larsson Nurse – Bear Russell – Jones | Benn – Seguin – Radulov Janmark – Hintz – Pavelski Cogliano – Faksa – Comeau Gurianov – Dickinson – Perry Lindell – Klingberg Oleksiak – Heiskanen Sekera – Polak |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
1 | ✅ Braden Holtby – @ CBJ ($8,400) | 1 | 1 |
2 | ✅ Ben Bishop – vs. EDM ($8,000) | 3 | 2 |
3 | 🅿️ Sergei Bobrovsky – vs. OTT ($8,200) | 2 | 4 |
4 | 🅿️ Juuse Saros – @ NYR ($7,300) | 4 | 3 |
5 | ✅ Philipp Grubauer – @ STL ($7,800) | 5 | 5 |
6 | ✅ Jordan Binnington – vs. COL ($7,900) | 7 | 6 |
7 | ✅ Alexandar Georgiev – vs. NSH ($7,400) | 6 | 8 |
8 | ✅ Anders Nilsson – @ FLA ($7,400) | 8 | 7 |
9 | 🅿️ Mikko Koskinen – @ DAL ($7,700) | 9 | 9 |
10 | ✅ Joonas Korpisalo – vs. WSH ($7,300) | 10 | 10 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | |
| C | Mattias Janmark ($3,100) | Brian Boyle ($3,000) |
| W | Craig Smith ($3,200) | Joakim Nygard ($2,500) |
| D | Justin Faulk ($3,300) | Esa Lindell ($3,000) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Nathan MacKinnon ($7,600) | 18.77 DK Points |
| W | Alex Ovechkin ($7,900) | 16.04 DK Points |
| D | Oscar Klefbom ($6,000) | 13.66 DK Points |
| G | Ben Bishop ($7,700) | 14.90 DK Points |
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3. Nashville 1 (Forsberg – Johansen – Jarnkrok)
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