Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 01/03/20


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
- — [WSH] @Nic Dowd (personal) is expected to be back in the Capitals lineup in Carolina.
- — [DAL] @Taylor Fedun will be back in the Stars lineup after being a healthy scratch for four games.
- — [DET] @Mike Green (personal) is expected to be back in the Red Wings lineup in Dallas.
OUT
- — [DAL] @John Klingberg (lower-body) is day-to-day and will not play vs. the Red Wings.
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
Capitals @ Hurricanes (7:30 pm)
| Ovechkin – Backstrom – Wilson Vrana – Kuznetsov – Oshie Hagelin – Eller – Panik Leipsic – Dowd – Hathaway Siegenthaler – Carlson Orlov – Jensen Kempny – Gudas | Svechnikov – Staal – Foegele Niederreiter – Aho – Teravainen Dzingel – Haula – Necas McGinn – Wallmark – Martinook Slavin – Hamilton Gardiner – Pesce Fleury – Edmundson |
Red Wings @ Stars (8:30 pm)
| Bertuzzi – Larkin – Fabbri Smith – Filppula – Zadina Helm – Nielsen – Glendening Abdelkader – Ehn – Erne Nemeth – Hronek Daley – Bowey Lashoff – Green | Benn – Seguin – Radulov Gurianov – Hintz – Pavelski Cogliano – Faksa – Comeau Janmark – Dickinson – Kiviranta Lindell – Fedun Oleksiak – Heiskanen Sekera – Polak |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
1 | ✅ Anton Khudobin – vs. DET ($7,900) | 1 | 1 |
t-2 | 🅿️ Petr Mrazek – vs. WSH ($7,700) | 3 | 2 |
t-2 | ✅ Ilya Samsonov – @ CAR ($7,400) | 2 | 3 |
4 | 🅿️ Jonathan Bernier – @ DAL ($7,000) | 4 | 4 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | |
| C | Frans Nielsen ($2,800) | Erik Haula ($4,000) |
| W | Martin Necas ($3,400) | Warren Foegele ($3,700) |
| D | Jamie Oleksiak ($2,500) | Dmitry Orlov ($3,600) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Sebastian Aho ($6,400) | 12.10 DK Points |
| W | Alex Ovechkin ($7,500) | 15.24 DK Points |
| D | Dougie Hamilton ($6,200) | 13.71 DK Points |
| G | Ilya Samsonov ($7,400) | 14.75 DK Points |
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DFS Lines to Target:
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3. Dallas 2 (Gurianov – Hintz – Pavelski)
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