Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice

The Kings of Daily Fantasy: NHL DFS Picks, Stacks, and Strategy
Welcome to our Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice page, your premier destination for winning NHL DFS strategies. This category is dedicated to providing high-level analysis for DraftKings, FanDuel, OwnersBox and Yahoo daily fantasy contests. Our experts break down the nightly slate to identify the essential value plays and high-upside stacks needed to climb the leaderboards.

Master the Daily Slate
Success in daily fantasy hockey requires more than just picking good players; it requires understanding ownership projections, line correlations, and salary efficiency. Our regular updates focus on:

GPP & Cash Game Targets: Tailored recommendations based on your contest type and risk tolerance.

Optimal DFS Stacks: Identifying high-correlation line combinations and power-play units to maximize scoring ceilings.

Value Plays: Uncovering minimum-salary players in prime deployment situations to help you fit elite superstars under the cap.

Goaltender Evaluations: Analyzing matchup data and save-volume projections to pick the right anchor for your lineup.

Data-Driven DFS Dominance
By combining Frozen Pool’s advanced metrics with expert game-tape analysis, “The Kings of Daily Fantasy” provides a comprehensive look at the nightly NHL landscape. Whether you are a casual player or a high-volume grinder, our insights help you navigate goalie confirmations, late-scratches, and shifting betting lines to build a mathematically superior lineup every night.

Andrew Santillo studies DFS and uses his experience to pass along his most optimal lineup for busy slates of games on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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DFS Tuesday: Struggling Rangers on the Road; Jets Flying Into San Jose; Noah Dobson’s Value, and More

By Andrew Santillo|2024-12-17T12:42:06-05:00December 17th, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day, DFS’ers! How’d everyone’s weekend plays go? I missed out on cash by a mile on Saturday, but that said, I did make my lineup in I’d say a minute in a half. These things happen. This is an interesting slate tonight because we don’t have Edmonton, Colorado, Toronto, or Minnesota, on this slate [...]

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DFS Saturday: Bolting Down on the Lightning

By Andrew Santillo|2024-12-14T11:57:09-05:00December 14th, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

Happy Saturday! This is an interesting slate today and at this point I’m still not 100% sure how I’m going to build but I do have an idea. Before we dive in there’s one obvious smash spot here that I’ll touch on really quick. If you want to play the Colorado top line at home [...]

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DFS Thursday: Split DraftKings Slate; Toronto’s Top Line; Dallas’s Depth; Seider’s Value, and More

By Andrew Santillo|2024-12-12T11:01:32-05:00December 12th, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day, all! This is an NHL 2024 slate if I’ve ever seen one. The Islanders are again in a great spot to carry high roster numbers (and score two goals), San Jose is on the road, Colorado is at home, and we have another Jets game that I couldn’t tell heads or tails what [...]

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DFS Tuesday: Calgary Value; Los Angeles’s Top Line; Quinn Hughes A Target, and More

By Andrew Santillo|2024-12-10T12:00:25-05:00December 10th, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day, all! I’ve been rolling on the DFS streets the past few slates I’ve been able to play, so let’s keep a good thing going. I will say, I do like this slate overall. There are some very clear smash spots today but for me I might be going to some clubs that are [...]

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DFS Saturday: Washington Should Capitalize

By Andrew Santillo|2024-12-07T12:16:16-05:00December 7th, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

Good morning, all! Let’s have a Saturday today all, we’re into the cash today, I can feel it. I’ve been playing well lately and it’s fun because the slates I’ve done well in I’ve been up to my neck in work (boo, tomato), and have had to plug and play with literally zero research. See [...]

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DFS Thursday: Goals for Colorado and Carolina; Tampa Bay’s Great Matchup; Werenski’s Value; Cheap Goaltender

By Andrew Santillo|2024-12-05T09:27:47-05:00December 5th, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day, all! How’ve we been doing on the DFS streets recently? I didn’t play yesterday’s four gamer but did play Tuesday with a Vancouver top line mixed with a Washington Connor McMichael/Tom Wilson two-man. My Vancouver stack in a crap matchup did fine. My Caps two-man in a great matchup did not. But hey, [...]

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DFS Tuesday: Washington In A Great Spot; Vancouver Overlooked; Spending Down on Spurgeon or Letang

By Andrew Santillo|2024-12-03T10:41:45-05:00December 3rd, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day, all! I haven’t played DFS since Saturday and to be completely honest I didn’t even check on how that lineup did. I mean, I know I missed cash and all, but I do like to go back and see how my lineup did and like to look at the top earners and see [...]

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DFS Saturday: Vegas Could Strike Gold

By Andrew Santillo|2024-11-29T16:11:53-05:00November 30th, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

Good morning all! So I haven’t really been able to get into much DFS during the Thanksgiving holiday here in the States, but I did have a New Jersey power-play stack on Tuesday. I was a little tight on salary while building and wanted to do a couple different things, so I went full NJ [...]

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DFS Saturday: Columbus Looking to Add to the Fireworks

By Andrew Santillo|2024-11-23T11:17:03-05:00November 23rd, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

Good morning, all! Let’s have a Saturday here everyone – I love this slate today. Unfortunately, that means in all likelihood we’re about to get smashed in tournaments, because that’s been the trend so far this season on slates I like. On ones where it’s right before lock and I’m on the train back from [...]

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DFS Thursday: Blues In Favorable Spot; Cheap Calgary Options; Samsonov On The Road

By Andrew Santillo|2024-11-21T11:12:28-05:00November 21st, 2024|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day, all! How’d everyone do last night? Last night yours truly put out a Nashville/Los Angeles single entry and felt great about it. Shocker: It didn’t cash. Not even close. Oh well though, there’s always another slate! I’ve been sitting at my desk now at work for about 20-30 minutes looking at this slate [...]