Daily Fantasy Hockey Goalie Rankings: December 29th

I’ll be the first one to tell you, that these have been lagging lately. It seems like my top-end guys do well, but whoever is listed as my No.1 or No.2 starter gets lit up. I took a BIG chance on Petr Mrazek the other night and he was awful, so I’ve changed the basis on which I rank these for the time being and lets see if my numbers improve. There are 12 games tonight, so you have 24 goalies to choose from.

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For those of you who have used this site for years, you have almost certainly seen my Daily Goalie rankings before. For those of you who are new, here is a little blow-by-blow.

On evenings where there are eight-plus games on the NHL schedule, I rank every goalie from 1-to-x (x=number of goalies playing that night) to help you decide which goalies to start that night. I take into account all standard Fantasy Hockey goalie statistics such as Wins, GAA and SV%. This is a fantastic tool for both year-long and daily fantasy players.

For year-long players, I am constantly faced with the questions: Pick two between Goalie X, Y or Z. Or something along those lines. Instead of answer each question individually, I have made it simple for anyone who has goalie questions to see who I would start. So, if Goalie X is ranked fourth, Goalie Y is ranked 2nd and Goalie Z is ranked 9th. Then you would start Goalies X and Y that night. Simple enough right! Good. Moving along.

For Daily players, I have listed the prices of each of tonight’s starting goalies from both DraftKings and FanDuel. If you’ve built your roster and you have $8,200 left, then pick my top goalie under $8,200. Or if you start building your roster with the best goalie that night, pick my top goalie or upper-tier goalie with the best value.

• LIKELY

1. Braden Holtby – vs. NJD – (DK-$8,200 / FD-$9,300)
2. Devan Dubnyk – vs. NYI – (DK-$8,300 / FD-$9,700)
3. Mike Condon – vs. DET – (DK-$7,700 / FD-$8,200)
4. Sergei Bobrovsky – @ WPG – (DK-$8,000 / FD-$9,500)
5. Kari Lehtonen – vs. COL – (DK-$7,900 / FD-$8,300)
6. Antti Raanta – @ ARI – (DK-$8,100 / FD-$8,800)
7. Cam Talbot – vs. LAK – (DK-$7,700 / FD-$8,800)
8. Corey Crawford – @ NSH – (DK-$7,800 / FD-$9,000)
9. Robin Lehner – vs. BOS – (DK-$7,400 / FD-$8,100)
10. Andrei Vasilevskiy – vs. TOR – (DK-$7,900 / FD-$8,600)
11. Al Montoya – @ FLA – (DK-$7,900 / FD-$7,800)
12. John Gibson – @ CGY – (DK-$7,500 / FD-$8,500)
13. Chad Johnson – vs. ANA – (DK-$7,600 / FD-$8,500)
14. Jared Coreau – @ OTT – (DK-$7,100 / FD-$7,300)
15. James Reimer – vs. MTL – (DK-$7,100 / FD-$7,900)
16. Jaroslav Halak – @ MIN – (DK-$7,100 / FD-$8,200)
17. Keith Kinkaid – @ WSH – (DK-$7,000 / FD-$7,500)
18. Antoine Bibeau – @ TBL – (DK-$7,000 / FD-$7,400)
19. Mike Smith – vs. NYR – (DK-$7,000 / FD-$8,200)
20. Calvin Pickard – @ DAL – (DK-$7,100 / FD-$7,700)
21. Michael Hutchinson – vs. CBJ – (DK-$7,200 / FD-$7,600)

Unconfirmed

• Boston Bruins: The Bruins had an optional morning skate this morning, so there was no news on who would be in goal, but with no back-to-back, look for Tuukka Rask to get the call between the pipes.
• Nashville Predators: As is often the case, information out of Nashville is difficult to come by, but they seem reluctant to give Juuse Saros more starts, so I’m expecting Pekka Rinne vs. the Blackhawks.
• Los Angeles Kings: The Kings are coming in on the tail-end of a back-to-back so they did not hold a morning skate and with Peter Budaj starting and losing to the Canucks last night, it could be Jeff Zatkoff tonight.

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