Hello friends…Happy Masters, and happy Thursday! Come this time of the season, the slates begin to blend for me. I swear the Blues played today, but they do not. I thought both New York franchises played tomorrow, that's not only wrong that they play today, but they both play each other. Don't worry you guys, I'll bring it together to help win us some cash before regular season's end.  

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Boston Bruins

The Bruins might be bad; I'm telling you all that the Chicago Blackhawks are worse and they're on the road. Relieving Luke Richardson really made all the difference, good job by you Hawks. Earlier in the season, I played enough of a Bruins top line with Elias Lindholm to want to never ever ever (ever) go back…but recently, this line has been good along with Lindholm's play, with him having a three-game point streak snapped against New Jersey. If you want to full-stack this line, you can as Morgan Geekie ($6,100, eight-game point streak), Elias Lindholm ($6,100), and David Pastrnak ($8,800, seven-game point streak). While spending up to $6,100 for Lindholm and Geekie might be a bit steep, this is still a great spot if you did want to stack this top line. Even just playing a Pastrnak one-off is perfectly fine with me, and odds are this is how I'll be going about building my single-entry lineup. Regardless of tournament size or entry number, playing Boston tonight is a solid idea going up against this Hawks club.

Colorado Avalanche

I'm here once again spreading the good word of playing the Colorado Avalanche. The Avs have it great to end the season with softer matchups and something that no other club has next week, and that's the entire week off from Monday to Thursday. While that might be bad news for some clubs that they don't control their own destiny, I don't think this is going to tilt the Avalanche one way or another. I like Colorado again tonight going up against the Canucks at home and I'll be building the Avalanche the way that I have the past couple of weeks, and that's a broken stack with Nathan MacKinnon ($9,300) as the focal point. I do want to get in David Pastrnak into my build, so if that's the case I'm going to need to go with cheaper Avalanche skaters than I have in the past week. That means along with MacKinnon, I could see a build that includes depth in potentially adding maybe Charlie Coyle ($6,600), or possibly Logan O'Connor or Miles Wood, both at $2,800. I have had a decent track record playing the Avalanche lately and don't want to hop off the train just yet.

Nashville Predators

I've stayed away from the Predators for a while now, but if I can, I might try and make a build with them or move up to a three-max tournament to get some Nashville exposure. The Preds now have a line with Steven Stamkos at $6,900 and Filip Forsberg at $7,700. Utah does a good job at limiting shots, but towards the bottom of the league in limiting goals, so there's interest from me. I wouldn't grab any depth from the Preds, to me this is a two-man stack or I'm walking away. Both Stamkos and Forsberg are on a four-game point streak and maybe I can get to Nashville in a spot where they're not popular. I realize that's a fever dream, but hey, maybe this is the one time that we can make this work out in our favor.

Defensemen

Cale Makar is again at the top at $8,300 and I'll say if you want to spend up for Colorado, that's fine with me. I'm never going to say no to playing Cale Makar on any slate. Zach Werenski on the other hand, I'm fading as he hasn't scored a goal in over 15 games played, I can't see myself looking to play him at $8,100. Quinn Hughes at $6,500 is fine with me, but that's about the extent of how much Canucks I'll get to on this slate. Josh Morrissey's price is starting to creep up again so I'm fine with playing him at $5,600 now before he goes over $6K again. Shea Theodore is interesting to me at $5,400 and if you're playing a Vegas stack tonight, you could go two forwards and add him in as the defenseman, that should make for a very good build. Sam Malinski at $4,400 I'm good with if you want to add in more Avalanche into your build, and just below him, both Ryan Pulock ($4,300) and Mason Lohrei ($4,200), make for decent plays. For a cheaper option, I don't mind going down to Jeff Petry at $3,600.

Goalies

The only expensive option that I have interest in just so happens to be the expensive option in Darcy Kuemper at $8,500. With that said, let's scroll on down the line which is perfect because I can see my build getting expensive quickly. Connor Hellebuyck is $7,500 – thank you for that price, DraftKings. For all the times I've had to stomach spending up for random Buffalo skaters, this is a nice relief…sort of. This is like when your boss let's everyone leave at 4:45 the day before a holiday to spend time with family. Joey Daccord's underlying numbers give me some worry, but I can see a world where I play him at $7,100, but I think that this may only be an MME play going into Vegas.

Good luck tonight everybody!  

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