Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)

Last night, I stayed up a bit past my bedtime to watch the rare dual-shutout game between the New York Islanders and Colorado Avalanche.  Two comments - first, the outstanding save by Ilya Sorokin with just six seconds left in OT, just wow. https://www.puckfeed.com/videos/14322753 Second, Evan Rodrigues won the night’s first star for his shootout [...]

My Tuesday DFS picks hit the nail squarely, leading off with the mismatch of Anaheim and Toronto. I’d obviously have won a larger part of the pot if I was clairvoyant (Connor Timmins’s three assists?), yeah. But a win is a win.  Moving on to my Thursday feature of “What’s Wrong With… (2022 playoff teams),” [...]

Last night’s games were a fantasy-hockey dreamland for goalies, with five of the six games played having three or fewer goals scored. If my math skills haven’t failed me, the combined save percentage for the 12 netminders was 0.945. Offensive kudos to Evgeni Malkin and Brayden Schenn, each scoring dramatic game-winners after 9-game scoring droughts.   [...]

News of the morning has to start with Tage Thompson. His 5-points (4G,1A) in the first period against Columbus was crazy enough, yes?  Almost an afterthought that he added a fifth.  Thompson has Rocket-ed to third in the NHL goals race.  My DFS+ starts with my Thursday feature, “What’s Wrong With… (2022 playoff teams only)?”  [...]

Last night I went to bed before the west coast game but had a DFS play (mostly) matching my deepest fantasy league - four Canadiens (Suzuki drafted, and FA’s Sean Monahan, Mike Matheson, and Kaiden Guhle) and two Canucks (Elias Pettersson and Andrei Kuzmenko, both drafted). Hmm, four goals, six assists, but only plus-2 combined, [...]

Starting this month, as part of my NHL DFS column, I’m planning a Thursday feature that’s tentatively titled “What’s wrong with…(playoff teams),” and my first examination will be the Tampa Bay Lightning. No, they haven’t collapsed, they’re not tanking, they have no plans to enter the Connor Bedard sweepstakes - - in fact, not a [...]

As we close out November, I’ll start with a review of the Vancouver Canucks’ resurgence. After an 0-5-2 start that had fans - and his boss Jim Rutherford - calling for Bruce Boudreau to win OR ELSE, the team is quietly 9-5-1, actually one of the best records in the west over that span.   So, [...]

Back in the first week of September, I put out some outrageous too-early predictions for the NHL season, team results. I had five new teams making the top-16, and thus into the playoffs come April, these being (alphabetically) Detroit, New York Islanders, Vancouver, Vegas, and Winnipeg.  Ok it’s now the eve of USA Thanksgiving, and [...]

On Tuesday, I discussed a team that’s underperforming badly (Vancouver), and yes they came to play for their coach, taking away a 5-4 win.   Today I’ll cover the opposite end, and discuss the New Jersey Devils. First stat - they’ve won their last 10 games and sit atop the Metropolitan Division. But why? The goaltending [...]

This week, most teams will pass the 20% mark of games played for the 2022–23 season. It’s no longer a small sample, and there are already several teams above or below the expectations that we all saw back in early October. Raise your hands if you saw Boston, New Jersey, Winnipeg, and Vegas leading their [...]