Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 01/06/20
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
- — [TOR] @Adam Brooks (illness) will be back in the lineup vs. Edmonton. [missed 1 game]
- — [COL] @Valeri Nichushkin (illness) will be back in the lineup vs. the Islanders. [missed 1 game]
- — [MTL] @Ilya Kovalchuk will make his Canadiens debut vs. Winnipeg.
- — [WPG] @Andrew Copp (upper-body) will return to the Jets lineup in Montreal. [missed 8 games]
- — [WPG] @Sami Niku will suit up for his second NHL game of the season vs. Montreal.
- — [LAK] @Dustin Brown (illness) will play Monday vs. the Blue Jackets. [missed 4 games]
- — [LAK] @Derek Forbort (back) will make his season debut Monday vs. Columbus. [missed 43 games]
- — [LAK] @Trevor Lewis (upper-body) will play Monday vs. Columbus. [missed 5 games]
- — [CBJ] @Markus Nutivaara (upper-body) has been activated from IR; expected to play in Los Angeles. [missed 27 games]
OUT
- — [TOR] @Dmytro Timashov will be a healthy scratch against the Oilers.
- — [COL] @Vladislav Kamenev will be a healthy scratch against the Oilers.
- — [WPG] @Jansen Harkins will be a healthy scratch against the Canadiens.
- — [WPG] @Carl Dahlstrom will be a healthy scratch against the Canadiens.
- — [WPG] @Nathan Beaulieu (lower-body) has been placed on IR.
- — [LAK] @Martin Frk is expected to be a healthy scratch on Monday.
- — [LAK] @Matt Luff is expected to be a healthy scratch on Monday.
- — [LAK] @Kale Clague is expected to be a healthy scratch on Monday.
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
Oilers @ Maple Leafs (7:00 pm)
| Neal – McDavid – Kassian Nugent-Hopkins – Draisaitl – Yamamoto Nygard – Haas – Chiasson Khaira – Sheahan – Archibald Klefbom – Larsson Nurse – Bear Jones – Russell | Hyman – Matthews – Marner Kerfoot – Tavares – Nylander Engvall – Spezza – Kapanen Marchment – Brooks – Gauthier Rielly – Barrie Marincin – Holl Dermott – Ceci |
Avalanche @ Islanders (7:00 pm)
| Landeskog – MacKinnon – Donskoi Calvert – Kadri – Nichushkin Burakovsky – Compher – Rantanen Jost – Bellemare – Nieto Graves – Makar Girard – Johnson Cole – Zadorov | Beauvillier – Barzal – Bailey Lee – Nelson – Eberle Dal Colle – Brassard – Kuhnhackl Martin – Cizikas – Komarov Leddy – Pulock Toews – Mayfield Dobson – Boychuk |
Jets @ Canadiens (7:00 pm)
| Connor – Scheifele – Perreault Ehlers – Wheeler – Roslovic Copp – Lowry – Perreault Bourque – Shore – Appleton Morrissey – Poolman Sbisa – Pionk Niku – Bitetto | Tatar – Danault – Kovalchuk Lehkonen – Domi – Suzuki Poehling – Kotkaniemi – Cousins Weal – Thompson – Weise Chiarot – Weber Scandella – Petry Mete – Fleury |
Blue Jackets @ Kings (10:30 pm)
| Nyquist – Jenner – Foligno Stenlund – Dubois – Robinson Milano – Wennberg – Gerbe MacInnis – Nash – Lilja Werenski – Jones Gavrikov – Savard Carlsson – Harrington | Iafallo – Kopitar – Toffoli Prokhorkin – Carter – Brown Kempe – Lizotte – Wagner Clifford – Amadio – Lewis Walker – Doughty Hutton – Roy Forbort – Martinez |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
1 | ✅ Frederik Andersen – vs. EDM ($8,200) | 2 | 1 |
2 | ✅ Pavel Francouz – @ NYI ($7,500) | 1 | 3 |
3 | ✅ Carey Price – vs. WPG ($8,000) | 3 | 2 |
4 | 🅿️ Jonathan Quick – vs. CBJ ($7,500) | 4 | 5 |
5 | 🅿️ Connor Hellebuyck – @ MTL ($7,200) | 6 | 4 |
6 | 🅾️ Elvis Merzlikins – @ LAK ($7,200) | 5 | 7 |
7 | ✅ Semyon Varlamov – vs. COL ($7,800) | 7 | 6 |
8 | 🅿️ Mike Smith – @ TOR ($7,100) | 8 | 8 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | |
| C | Jesperi Kotkaniemi ($3,700) | J.T. Compher ($3,000) |
| W | Ilya Kovalchuk ($3,000) | Alexander Kerfoot ($3,900) |
| D | Scott Mayfield ($3,000) | Ethan Bear ($3,200) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Auston Matthews ($7,900) | 16.10 DK Points |
| W | Mitch Marner ($6,800) | 14.59 DK Points |
| D | Shea Weber ($6,400) | 14.12 DK Points |
| G | Pavel Francouz ($7,500) | 16.42 DK Points |
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4. Montreal 1 (Tatar – Danault – Kovalchuk)
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