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Looking back to last Saturday, here's what the $10,000 first place lineup for username "mackman1995" looked like in the DraftKings Top Shelf contest:

Once again, we see the familiar 4-3-1 lineup stack construction finding its way to the top with seven of the eight skaters in the lineup on the top power play and the four-player stack coming in at under $25,000 in combined salary. All of these are points we've touched on over the past few weeks. The Tampa Bay and Los Angeles top lines as well as Ivan Provorov were all players referenced in this article last week, which is nice to see. Hopefully if you played you were able to land on a similar style lineup. If not, there's always this week.

The regular season is winding down with only two Saturday slates left after this week, so we need to make the most of what's left. There's a nice slate of nine games on tap for tonight, so let's find some places to target. All players and prices are from DraftKings but can be applied to any site.

Four Player Stacks under $25,000

Edmonton – If you know me, you know I like targeting against teams on road back-to-backs. I don't discriminate so even though that team tonight is the best in the league, that doesn't mean I won't stack against the Avalanche, who are dealing with a few injuries and are coming off an overtime game on Friday. You also don't have to twist my arm to roster Connor McDavid ($9,200). Stack him with Leon Draisaitl ($8,100), Kailer Yamamoto ($3,200), and one of Tyson Barrie ($4,400) or Evan Bouchard ($4,300) to get a four-man stack just under the salary threshold.

Toronto – Not going out on much of a limb here, but sometimes the obvious choice is the correct one. Fading Auston Matthews ($9,600) and company of late has not worked out very well considering he has 49 goals over his last 49 games. It's true, I looked it up. Pairing him with Mitch Marner ($7,800) requires us to go light with the rest of the stack, but luckily Michael Bunting comes in with an affordable tag of $4,400 and we can round out the stack with T.J. Brodie ($2,600) who has seen some time on the second power-play unit of late and will see some shifts with Matthews at even strength being on the second defensive pair.

Vegas – With several big names going on this slate, like the ones I've already mentioned above, there's a good chance a team like the Golden Knights will get lost in the shuffle tonight despite the plum home matchup against the Coyotes. An added boost here is that all signs are pointing to Max Pacioretty ($6,700) returning to the lineup on Saturday. With a 10 pm EST start, there's a good chance many of our competitors will be too scared to roster Pacioretty in the chance he doesn't play. However, that uncertainty can be looked at as a benefit as he will garner close to no ownership. I think a stack with him, Jack Eichel ($7,800), Shea Theodore ($5,900), and Chandler Stephenson (3,900) makes a lot of sense especially considering it was Stephenson who was centering Pacioretty in Friday's practice. If Pacioretty were to be ruled out, no worries as you can easily swap to Jonathan Marchessault ($6,800).

Three-Player Stacks to Mix In

Ottawa – If we see Alexandar Georgiev in net for New York, I become much more confident in this play, but as it stands and assuming Ottawa will be seeing Shesterkin the price on Brady Tkachuk ($5,900) is still too cheap to pass up for a player who shoots as often as he does. Stack him with Josh Norris ($6,600) and Erik Brannstrom ($2,600) to get a full power play one stack at a price you can fit with the big guns above.

Vancouver – Coming off a stretch of five goals in four games, we'll try to ride Elias Pettersson ($5,500) for a few more while he's hot. Pairing him with J.T. Miller ($7,500) is the way to go as they skate together on the top line and power play. Assuming Quinn Hughes misses again, consider Oliver Ekman-Larsson ($4,200) to round out the stack.

Anaheim – To say the Ducks have been struggling lately would be a major understatement. They've actually lost 13 of 14 games. Yikes. However, their opponent tonight the Philadelphia Flyers have not exactly been a model of consistency themselves. In this meeting between two not so good teams, I'm looking at a stack of Trevor Zegras ($5,400), Troy Terry ($5,100), and Jamie Drysdale ($3,300) for salary relief. Zegras in particular continues to flash his talent as evidenced with his "Michigan" goal last week.

By using the four-player stacks from the first section (or plucking three of the four from those) combined with the three player stacks from above, you can build yourself 4-3-1 or 3-3-1-1 constructed lineups which are two of the most successful large field tournament strategies.

Cheap Power Play 1 Plugs

C – Jean-Gabriel Pageau ($2,900), Colin White ($3,200), Ryan Strome ($3,900)

W – J.T. Compher ($2,600), Nick Ritchie ($2,600), Daniel Sprong ($2,800), Brendan Gallagher ($3,100)

D – Cam York ($3,100), Nick Leddy ($3,200), Vince Dunn ($3,900)

Goalie Picks

Thatcher Demko ($7,900)

Igor Shesterkin ($8,300)

Elvis Merzlikins ($7,800)

Semyon Varlamov ($7,300)

Anton Forsberg ($7,100)

Be sure to double check your lineups before lock for any last-minute scratches or goalie changes. If you follow me on Twitter @SteveDotzel you can subscribe to my "DFS-NHL" list which is comprised of several team beat writers tweeting the most recent news in real-time. You can also reach out to me personally and I'll do my best to answer any questions I can. Hope to see you on top of the leaderboards!