Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 10/25/19
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
- — [TOR] @Jason Spezza is expected to be back in the lineup vs. San Jose.
- — [NJD] @Nico Hischier (upper-body) will return to the lineup vs. Arizona.
- — [DET] @Givani Smith was recalled from Grand Rapids (AHL) and will make his NHL debut vs. Buffalo.
GAMETIME DECISION
- — [BUF] @Jimmy Vesey (undisclosed) left Thursday’s game and is questionable to play Friday.
- — [BUF] @Marco Scandella (leg) left Thursday’s game and is questionable to play Friday.
OUT
- — [COL] @Mikko Rantanen is week-to-week with a lower-body injury.
- — [TOR] @Nic Petan is expected to be a healthy scratch vs. the Sharks.
- — [NJD] @Will Butcher (upper-body) will miss his second straight game.
- — [DET] @Luke Glendening (hand) will miss 2-4 weeks.
- — [DET] @Dan DeKeyser (lower-body) is expected to miss two weeks.
- — [DET] @Justin Abdelkader (undisclosed) is day-to-day; will not play Friday.
- — [DET] @Adam Erne (undisclosed) is day-to-day; will not play Friday.
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
⚠️ Gametime Decision
Avalanche @ Golden Knights (6:00 pm)
| Landeskog — MacKinnon — Compher Burakovsky — Kadri — Donskoi Nieto — Jost — Nichushkin Calvert — Bellemare — Kamenev Girard — Johnson Cole — Makar Graves — Zadorov | Marchessault — Karlsson — Smith Pacioretty — Stastny — Stone Pirri — Eakin — Glass Carrier — Nosek — Reaves McNabb — Theodore Merrill — Holden Bischoff — Engelland |
Sharks @ Maple Leafs (7:00 pm)
| Meier — Couture — Marleau Kane — Hertl — Labanc Sorensen — Thornton — Goodrow Gregor — Gambrell — M. Karlsson Vlasic — Burns Dillon — E. Karlsson Ferraro — Heed | Johnsson — Matthews — Nylander Mikheyev — Kerfoot — Marner Moore — Spezza — Kapanen Timashov — Shore — Gauthier Rielly — Ceci Muzzin — Barrie Gravel — Holl |
Coyotes @ Devils (7:00 pm)
| Keller — Stepan — Kessel Garland — Dvorak — Schmaltz Grabner — Richardson — Hinostroza Crouse — Soderberg — Fischer Ekman-Larsson — Demers Chychrun — Goligoski Capobianco — Lyubushkin | Hall — Hughes — Palmieri Coleman — Zajac — Simmonds Zacha — Hischier — Gusev Wood — Rooney — Hayden Severson — Subban Greene — Vatanen Mueller — Tennyson |
Sabres @ Red Wings (7:30 pm)
| Olofsson — Eichel — Reinhart Skinner — Johansson — Sobotka Girgensons — Larsson — Okposo Rodrigues — Mittelstadt — Sheary McCabe — Ristolainen Dahlin — Miller Gilmour — Jokiharju | Bertuzzi — Larkin — Helm Athanasiou — Filppula — Mantha Hirose — Nielsen — Svechnikov Ehn — de la Rose — Smith Hronek — Green Nemeth — Daley Biega — Cholowski |
Islanders @ Senators (7:30 pm)
| Lee — Barzal — Bailey Brassard — Nelson — Beauvillier Dal Colle — Bardreau — Wahlstrom Martin — Cizikas — Clutterbuck Pelech — Pulock Toews — Mayfield Leddy — Boychuk | Tkachuk — L. Brown — Duclair Namestnikov — Tierney — Ryan Paul — Pageau — C. Brown Ennis — Beaudin — Sabourin Chabot — Zaitsev Brannstrom — Hainsey Borowiecki — DeMelo |
Capitals @ Canucks (10:00 pm)
| Ovechkin — Backstrom — Oshie Hagelin — Kuznetsov — Wilson Vrana — Eller — Hathaway Leipsic — Dowd — Stephenson Kempny — Carlson Orlov — Jensen Siegenthaler — Gudas | Ferland — Horvat — Virtanen Miller — Pettersson — Boeser Pearson — Sutter — Leivo Schaller — Beagle — Motte Edler — Myers Hughes — Tanev Benn — Stecher |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
1 | 🅾️ Frederik Andersen (vs. SJS) — $8,200 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 🅾️ Thomas Greiss (@ OTT) — $8,100 | 3 | 2 |
t-3 | ✅ Mackenzie Blackwood (vs. ARI) — $7,900 | 4 | 4 |
t-3 | ✅ Anders Nilsson (vs. NYI) — $7,000 | 2 | 6 |
5 | 🅾️ Jacob Markstrom (vs. WSH) — $7,700 | 6 | 3 |
6 | ✅ Antti Raanta (@ NJD) — $7,500 | 5 | 8 |
t-7 | 🅾️ Linus Ullmark (@ DET) — $7,800 | 9 | 5 |
t-7 | ✅ Ilya Samsonov (@ VAN) — $7,400 | 7 | 7 |
9 | ✅ Jimmy Howard (vs. BUF) — $7,400 | 8 | 9 |
10 | ✅ Martin Jones (@ TOR) — $7,000 | 10 | 10 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | |
| C | Chris Tierney ($3,900) | Chris Tierney ($3,900) |
| W | Andreas Athanasiou ($3,800) | Connor Brown ($3,900) |
| D | Quinn Hughes ($4,100) | Jakob Chychrun ($3,900) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Jack Eichel ($7,800) | 13.82 DK Points |
| W | Alex Ovechkin ($8,200) | 16.70 DK Points |
| D | John Carlson ($7,100) | 12.66 DK Points |
| G | Frederik Andersen ($8,200) | 14.46 DK Points |
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