Brad Hayward studies DFS and uses his experience to pass along his most optimal lineup for Saturday’s busy slate of games.
Special Edition of the article this week with a DFS Friday on tap as 26 teams were scheduled for action in the last night before the league pauses for a holiday break. We’ve since lost two of those games as of this writing because of weather concerns, but that still leaves us with a more [...]
I saved Christmas week for my “What’s Wrong With…” piece on the Colorado Avalanche - I planned to be charitable until some of the research and statistics that follow. Wrong, you say? The Avs have been considered strong options, if not favorites, to repeat as Stanley Cup champions! Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Mikko Ranranen, those [...]
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 [...]
Boring week of fantasy here as we didn’t have a single player score five goals in one game or put up 70 DraftKings points, can you believe it? Oh well, maybe next week. As we returned to more normal scoring, the NHL has returned to their more normal schedule as well. That’s left us with [...]
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. [...]
Before getting into our Saturday slate, we have to give recognition to Tage Thompson who put up one of the greatest daily fantasy performances of all-time on Wednesday. With five goals, nine shots, and an assist Thompson put up 70.0 DraftKings points by himself. That’s the most fantasy points by a player that I was [...]
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, [...]
After an uncharacteristically small slate of games for last week’s DFS Saturday, we’re back to regularly scheduled programming tonight with a hefty 12-game one. With so many teams and players in action, I strongly recommend giving our tools at DFS Central a look. They can help you sift through all these names and single out [...]
