Good day, and welcome back in! This slate is much more manageable than yesterday's chalk-or-nothing slate. While I stayed away from yesterday altogether, I am ready to throw some chips in on this Tuesday slate of games that we have ahead of us.

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Minnesota Wild

Earlier in the season, Minnesota played Colorado on a road back-to-back for the Avalanche, much like they will tonight. In that game, the Avalanche won but had MacKenzie Blackwood starting in net, Mikko Rantanen was still on the team, and this was right around when Filip Gustavsson was really struggling for the Wild. Tonight, I have interest in going to Minnesota because all of those things have flipped for the Avs and want to try and get a piece of the Minnesota top line tonight. From a hockey standpoint, this line should be able to either keep pace with Colorado or do the thing Minnesota does at home which is slow teams to a crawl, and what's most important is they are affordable and fully correlated on the Minnesota top power-play. I'm looking to have lineup flexibility tonight and Matt Boldy ($7,300), Marco Rossi ($4,900) and Vinnie Hinostroza ($3,200), do just that for me. I don't need them to go off here tonight (although that would be nice), but if this line can get on the score sheet, then I'm setup alright with whatever stack I put with them. I'd surprised if I didn't get to this line in single entry, and that would be the same if I was going up to three-max and above.

Vegas Golden Knights

We just saw this matchup on Friday and the Golden Knights took care of this Pittsburgh team easily 4-0. While I lean Vegas when they're at home heavily, I don't mind going back to a Vegas stack here going up against a Pittsburgh club that has nothing that worries me as far as a defensive line, and either way they lean in net is a good matchup for Vegas. I took down one of the $1 tournaments going with full Vegas one in this same matchup, and yes, that includes adding on in Tanner Pearson ($4,100) as he caught the residual points from the rest of the top line and tonight, I don't mind going right back. Jack Eichel ($8,500), and Mark Stone ($6,800) are good enough as a pair, but adding in Tanner Pearson to get unique is a very nice way to have a unique enough build. In this matchup as well, I don't mind going to the second line, where same goes for line two as line one. I'll definitely play Thomas Hertl ($7,100) and Pavel Dorofeyev ($6,500) but will add on Brandon Saad at $4,700. If given the two options, I'd rather go to the topline and full stack it, but that's keeping in mind that I can't see Brandon Saad's name without being reminded of the worst trade in my lifetime. Anyone know whatever became of Artemi Panarin?

Winnipeg Jets

I caught bits and pieces of the last Rangers game, and something looked…I'll go with "off". I couldn't tell if by the time I started watching that the Rangers were down enough to where they had sort of checked out of the game, or if that was just the way the game against Columbus went in its entirety. Regardless, I love Winnipeg one again tonight. I don't even mind full-stacking and throwing in Vladislav Namestnikov ($3,600) to add on to your stack, or even going for someone on the blueline. If you have the salary and want to spend up for Nikolaj Ehlers at $6,100, I also think that's a fine play. This is going up against a New York club with a struggling Igor Shesterkin, and blueline without Adam Fox, in single-entry I'm strongly considering the Jets as my main stack on this slate.

Defensemen

Cale Makar, top of the board at $8K, Zach Werenski behind him at $7,600. I do like Josh Morrissey at $6,700 but where I may target is a little bit down the line, getting at Noah Dobson at $5,800. Noah Hanifin is another name that sticks out at $5,700 and have interest regardless of if I'm playing Vegas or not. Jackson LaCombe at $5K is at a fair number and don't mind the spot he'll be in against Washington; he also provides shooting along with blocks for a potential bonus. Drew Doughty at $4,600 is interesting as this Kings club has gone one game on, one game off, for scoring. Seth Jones at $4,500 for Florida should see a spike in ice time with Aaron Ekblad suspended, and just below him, I like Lane Hutson quite a bit at $4,400. For a cheap option tonight, I might be looking at Ryan Pulock down at $3,200 and am fine with going double-defensemen with him and Dobson.

Goalies

If I'm spending up, I could see myself playing Jacob Markstrom at $8,300 in a decent matchup at home against the Jackets. I may have the salary to go up that high and am considering him. Connor Hellebuyck is at home and is down below $8K…just throwing that out there. I do like Andrei Vasilevskiy priced at $7,600 to rebound after a tough outing against the Bruins. If I need to spend down a bit, Ilya Sorokin down at $7,500 fits with different options tonight and might provide a great way to save salary.

Good luck tonight everybody!  

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