Daily Fantasy Hockey Notebook — 12/05/19
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
- — [CBJ] @Andrew Peeke (NHL debut)
- — [CBJ] @Emil Bemstrom (healthy scratch for 1 game)
- — [MTL] @Cayden Primeau (NHL debut)
- — [MTL] @Otto Leskinen (NHL debut)
- — [BOS] @John Moore (shoulder – season debut)
- — [CHI] @Dylan Strome (concussion – missed 4 games)
- — [WPG] @Nathan Beaulieu (upper-body – missed 4 games)
- — [CGY] @Travis Hamonic (lower-body – missed 6 games)
- — [BUF] @Evan Rodrigues (lower-body – missed 5 games)
GAMETIME DECISION
- — [TBL] @Alex Killorn (lower-body)
- — [COL] @Gabriel Landeskog (lower-body)
- — [CHI] @Olli Maatta (illness)
OUT
- — [CBJ] @Scott Harrington (healthy scratch)
- — [CBJ] @Eric Robinson (healthy scratch)
- — [MIN] @Jared Spurgeon (upper-body – out 2 weeks)
- — [MIN] @Mikko Koivu (lower-body – day-to-day)
- — [PHI] @Michael Raffl (broken pinky – out 1 month)
- — [VGK] @Marc-Andre Fleury (personal – will backup)
- — [CAR] @Martin Necas (lower-body – day-to-day)
- — [BOS] @Connor Clifton (healthy scratch)
- — [DAL] @Alexander Radulov (healthy scratch)
- — [WPG] @Carl Dahlstrom (healthy scratch)
Projected Lineups
*Subject to change*
Gametime Decision
Rangers @ Blue Jackets (7:00 pm)
| Lemieux – Zibanejad – Kakko Panarin – Strome – Kreider Fast – Chytil – Buchnevich Nieves – Howden – Smith Skjei – Trouba Lindgren – Fox Hajek – DeAngelo | Nyquist – Jenner – Bjorkstrand Foligno – Texier – Atkinson Milano – Dubois – Bemstrom Nash – Wennberg – Anderson Kukan – Jones Murray – Savard Gavrikov – Harrington |
Wild @ Lightning (7:00 pm)
| Zucker – Staal – Zuccarello Parise – Kunin – Fiala Greenway – Eriksson Ek – Hartman Foligno – Rask – Donato Suter – Dumba Soucy – Brodin Seeler – Hunt | Palat – Point – Kucherov Johnson – Cirelli – Stamkos Maroon – Paquette – Gourde ⚠️ Killorn – Verhaeghe – Joseph Hedman – Shattenkirk McDonagh – Cernak Sergachev – Rutta |
Coyotes @ Flyers (7:00 pm)
| Keller – Stepan – Hinostroza Dvorak – Schmaltz – Garland Crouse – Soderberg – Kessel Grabner – Richardson – Fischer Ekman-Larsson – Demers Chychrun – Goligoski Oesterle – Lyubishkin | Giroux – Frost – Konecny Lindblom – Couturier – Voracek Laughton – Hayes – Farabee van Riemsdyk – Pitlick Provorov – Niskanen Sanheim – Braun Gostisbehere – Myers Hagg |
Golden Knights @ Islanders (7:00 pm)
| Marchessault – Karlsson – Smith Pacioretty – Stastny – Stone Carrier – Glass – Tuch Nosek – Stephenson – Reaves McNabb – Schmidt Merrill – Engelland Hague – Theodore | Beauvillier – Nelson – Komarov Dal Colle – Barzal – Bailey Lee – Brassard – Eberle Martin – Cizikas – Clutterbuck Leddy – Boychuk Pelech – Pulock Toews – Mayfield |
Avalanche @ Canadiens (7:00 pm)
| ⚠️ Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen Donskoi – Kadri – Compher Calvert – Bellemare – Nichushkin Nieto – Jost – Tynan Makar – Zadorov Girard – Rosen Cole – Graves | Tatar – Danault – Gallagher Cousins – Domi – Suzuki Lehkonen – Kotkaniemi – Armia Peca – Thompson – Weal Chiarot – Weber Kulak – Petry Leskinen – Fleury |
Sharks @ Hurricanes (7:00 pm)
| Kane – Couture – Goodrow Meier – Hertl – Marleau Sorensen – Thornton – Labanc Gregor – Gambrell – Radil Vlasic – E. Karlsson Simek – Burns Dillon – Ferraro | Svechnikov – Staal – Foegele Niederreiter – Aho – Teravainen Dzingel – Wallmark – Martinook McGinn – Bishop – Gibbons Slavin – Hamilton Edmundson – Pesce Fleury – Gardiner |
Blackhawks @ Bruins (7:00 pm)
| Saad – Toews – Nylander DeBrincat – Strome – Kane Wedin – Kampf – Kubalik Carpenter – Dach – Smith ⚠️ Maatta – Murphy de Haan – Seabrook Gustafsson – Koekkoek | DeBrusk – Krejci – Pastrnak Marchand – Coyle – Heinen Bjork – Kuraly – Wagner Nordstrom – Lindholm – Backes Chara – McAvoy Krug – Carlo Moore – Grzelcyk |
Jets @ Stars (8:30 pm)
| Connor – Scheifele – Laine Ehlers – Wheeler – Roslovic Copp – Lowry – Perreault Luoto – Gustafsson – Shaw Morrissey – Poolman Sbisa – Pionk Beaulieu – Bitetto | Benn – Dowling – Seguin Janmark – Hintz – Pavelski Cogliano – Faksa – Comeau Gurianov – Dickinson – Perry Lindell – Heiskanen Sekera – Klingberg Oleksiak – Polak |
Sabres @ Flames (9:00 pm)
| Olofsson – Eichel – Reinhart Skinner – Larsson – Sheary Mittelstadt – Johansson – Vesey Girgensons – Asplund – Rodrigues Montour – Ristolainen Scandella – Jokiharju Miller – Bogosian | Tkachuk – Lindholm – Mangiapane Monahan – Backlund – Dube Lucic – Ryan – Gaudreau Rieder – Jankowski – Frolik Giordano – Brodie Hanifin – Hamonic Kylington – Andersson |
Consensus Goalie Rankings
✅ — Confirmed
🅿️ — Probable
🅾️ — Projected
Rank | Goalie — Matchup — Price | Brock | Dylan |
1 | ✅ Andrei Vasilevskiy – vs. MIN ($8,300) | 1 | 1 |
t-2 | ✅ Brian Elliott – vs. ARI ($8,100) | 2 | 3 |
t-2 | ✅ Tuukka Rask – vs. CHI ($8,400) | 3 | 2 |
t-4 | ✅ Ben Bishop – vs. WPG ($8,200) | 6 | 5 |
t-4 | ✅ David Rittich – vs. BUF ($7,900) | 7 | 4 |
6 | ✅ Connor Hellebuyck – @ DAL ($7,200) | 5 | 9 |
t-7 | ✅ Joonas Korpisalo – vs. NYR ($8,000) | 9 | 6 |
t-7 | ✅ Pavel Francouz – @ MTL ($7,300) | 4 | 11 |
9 | ✅ Semyon Varlamov – vs. VGK ($7,900) | 8 | 8 |
10 | 🅿️ Petr Mrazek – vs. SJS ($8,100) | 10 | 7 |
11 | ✅ Malcolm Subban – @ NYI ($7,200) | 11 | 10 |
12 | ✅ Robin Lehner – @ BOS ($6,900) | 13 | 12 |
13 | ✅ Darcy Kuemper – @ PHI ($7,500) | 12 | 14 |
14 | ✅ Linus Ullmark – @ CGY ($7,300) | 14 | 13 |
15 | ✅ Alexandar Georgiev – @ CBJ ($7,600) | 15 | 15 |
16 | ✅ Aaron Dell – @ CAR ($6,900) | 16 | 17 |
17 | ✅ Alex Stalock – @ TBL ($7,000) | 18 | 16 |
18 | ✅ Cayden Primeau – vs. COL ($7,400) | 17 | 18 |
Daily Value Picks
| Brock | Dylan | |
| C | Anthony Cirelli ($4,100) | Jordan Staal ($3,500) |
| W | Luke Kunin ($2,700) | Danton Heinen ($3,500) |
| D | Noah Hanifin ($3,800) | Shayne Gostisbehere ($3,200) |
Optimizer Highest Projections
| C | Jack Eichel ($8,000) | 18.84 DK Points |
| W | David Pastrnak ($8,400) | 16.34 DK Points |
| D | Shea Weber ($6,500) | 14.63 DK Points |
| G | Tuukka Rask ($8,400) | 17.57 DK Points |
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5. Montreal 1 (Tatar – Danault – Gallagher)
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