Good morning, all! We have a really nice slate coming at us today. Some slates I look up and down a Chicago "couple-a two-tree times", to decide where I'm going but today, I came to my decision fairly quick. I genuinely like this slate, and it may be because yesterday's four-gamer was as I put it in my fantasy group chat, "bleak". With that, let's get our money up today.

Slate Preview

Washington Capitals

I typically don't stack clubs going into Minnesota, but this is a case where the numbers tell me one thing, while the eye test is revealing something completely different. Stats wise yes, Minnesota is good on home ice and just since March 1^st, Filip Gustavsson has been one of the best goaltenders in the NHL. However, eye test is not backing this up for me. I watched this Wild club get shutout against Dallas (stacked Minnesota one that night) and then get blown out against the Golden Knights. What am I missing here to not want to stack the best road team in the NHL in the Washington Capitals against a club that, shhh…I'm lowering my voice now…might get passed by St. Louis by tonight's end. Where I'm going for Washington is taking the chips and pushing them towards the middle of the table: It's a full power play stack for me. Minnesota's penalty kill has been abysmal for some time now and I want to take advantage of it. If you just want to stack the top power play forwards and leave off Jakub Chychrun that's fine but just be aware that he is active on the man advantage. With each of the top two Capitals lines featuring two members on the top power play and given Minnesota's issues on the PK, I like the idea of going to a power play stack for the Capitals.

St. Louis Blues

The secret is out by now, but the Blues are good. I have really enjoyed my time playing St. Louis so far this season and may be going back to them tonight as my second favorite club to pick on is going up against a club that has been stellar offensively since coming back from the Four Nations. I just watched this same matchup on Sunday to where the Blues won 4-1…and then the week prior these two faced off, where the Blues won by that exact same score. Trends are your friends; I'll be looking into potentially playing some St. Louis tonight and it'll be going right on back to my ol' pals on the second line. Jordan Kyruou ($6,400), Dylan Holloway ($6,300), and Braden Schenn ($4,400) are the stack I didn't know I needed in DFS in 2025, but they've been here for us since mid-January. In my single-entry they're a club I'm considering playing, or at the very least, just trying to fit some of their depth in if I look elsewhere. In MME or those out there using optimizers, I'd be surprised if St. Louis didn't make it into your mix.

Los Angeles Kings

I might be on the Kings train tonight, but this is completely line-dependent. If the Kings are running a fully correlated top line of Andrei Kuzemenko ($4,800), Anze Kopitar ($4,500), and Adrian Kempe ($5,900), then I have real interest in stacking this trio. There was a time where I usually looked away from stacking the Kings going up against the Avalanche, and maybe this is a spot to where this club tries everything to slow down the Colorado top line, but it's hard to find a good top line at that price point. You can fit them with a decently priced stack and if they get on the board once then you may be putting yourself ahead of the field. This is a leverage play just as much as it is one based on price, so if this line is together then I do have some interest in going to Los Angeles.

Defensemen

Right at the top tonight is Cale Makar at $7,500, I'd play him as an expensive one-off and of course would look to fit him with the Avalanche if you're planning to go in that direction. I like Thomas Harley even at $6,600 – if you're spending up on defense but don't want to go all the way to the top then he makes for a great play here tonight. Moritz Seider and Brandon Montour are right next to each other in price again at $6K and $5,900, and I think both are fine to play on this slate. I don't mind Darnell Nurse at $5,500 as he makes for a great pivot in Edmonton stacks and has had a decent couple weeks for DFS. If I'm looking in the $4K range tonight, then it's Vince Dunn that stands out to me at $4,500. Punt defensemen for me would be going to Matt Grezlcyk at $3,400 or Martin Fehervary at $3,200.

Goalies

The highest I can see myself getting to today would likely be either St. Louis goaltender at $8K, St. Louis is in a favorable matchup, while still seeing a good amount of volume. The same goes for either Washington goaltender at $7,600, I like the spot here for the Caps and if I'm going full-on power-play stack, then I could see myself getting to whichever goaltender gets the start for Washington. I'll say this for a cheap goaltender: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen is going to see pucks tonight. I worry about the win when it comes to playing him, but he's going to get plenty of action in net. If you're not playing St. Louis then Juuse Saros at $7,400 is playable. It's not my cup of tea, but I can see if your lineup gets expensive and in need of salary relief how he becomes a popular play tonight.

Good luck tonight everybody!  

For continued fantasy news and notes, follow me on Twitter @ndySanz.