Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 12/18/19
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
- – [CHI] @Duncan Keith (groin) will play vs. Colorado after missing the last nine games.
- – [COL] @Anton Lindholm will make his season debut in Chicago.
GAMETIME DECISION
- – [CHI] @Zack Smith (illness) missed the morning skate and is a game-time decision vs. Colorado.
OUT
- – [ANA] @Troy Terry left Tuesday with an ankle injury; not expected to play in New Jersey.
- – [CHI] @Brent Seabrook will be a healthy scratch vs. the Avalanche.
- – [COL] @Calle Rosen will be a healthy scratch in Chicago.
- – [STL] @Ivan Barbashev (upper-body) will miss his second straight game.
Projected Lineups
- *Subject to change*
- ⚠️ Gametime Decision
Ducks @ Devils (7:00 pm)
| Shore – Getzlaf – Kase Rakell – Henrique – Silfverberg Comtois – Steel – Carrick Deslauriers – Grant – Rowney Lindholm – Manson Fowler – Gudbranson Larsson – Del Zotto | Bratt – Hischier – Palmieri Coleman – Zajac – Gusev Zacha – Hughes – Simmonds Boqvist – McLeod – Wood Greene – Subban Butcher – Vatanen Mueller – Severson |
Avalanche @ Blackhawks (8:00 pm)
| Burakovsky – MacKinnon – Rantanen Landeskog – Kadri – Donskoi Nichushkin – Bellemare – Calvert Nieto – Jost – Compher Girard – Zadorov Cole – Graves Lindholm – Barberio | Kubalik – Toews – Saad Nylander – Strome – Kane DeBrincat – Dach – Carpenter ⚠️ Smith – Kampf – Highmore Keith – Murphy Gilbert – Gustafsson Maatta – Boqvist |
Oilers @ Blues (8:30 pm)
| Nygard – McDavid – Kassian Neal – Draisaitl – Gagner Khaira – Nugent-Hopkins – Chiasson Sheahan – Haas – Archibald Klefbom – Larsson Nurse – Bear Russell – Jones | Schwartz – Schenn – Kyrou Sundqvist – O’Reilly – Perron Steen – Thomas – Bozak MacEachern – de la Rose – Sanford Parayko – Pietrangelo Bouwmeester – Faulk Dunn – Bortuzzo |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
1 | ✅ Pavel Francouz – @ CHI ($7,900) | 1 | 1 |
t-2 | ✅ Ryan Miller – @ NJD ($7,400) | 3 | 2 |
t-2 | ✅ Jake Allen – vs. EDM ($7,800) | 2 | 3 |
4 | ✅ Mikko Koskinen – @ STL ($7,800) | 4 | 4 |
t-5 | ✅ Mackenzie Blackwood – vs. ANA ($7,200) | 5 | 6 |
t-5 | ✅ Corey Crawford – vs. COL ($7,600) | 6 | 5 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | |
| C | Adam Henrique ($4,200) | Robert Thomas ($2,700) |
| W | Blake Coleman ($3,900) | Oskar Sundqvist ($3,400) |
| D | Josh Manson ($2,700) | Vince Dunn ($2,800) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Nathan MacKinnon ($8,200) | 21.67 DK Points |
| W | Patrick Kane ($8,000) | 14.74 DK Points |
| D | Oscar Klefbom ($6,100) | 13.17 DK Points |
| G | Pavel Francouz ($7,900) | 13.31 DK Points |
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DFS Lines to Target:
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3. Chicago 2 (Nylander – Strome – Kane)
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