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 Thursday: Oilers and Panthers Look Primed For Offense

By Brad Hayward|2022-11-03T12:57:51-04:00November 3rd, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

After Tuesday, I’ve decided to take the easy way out - just pick Edmonton’s top power play, the best goalkeeper, and leave the rest of the card blank. If this works one time in five, you’d be ahead! Ok, back to reality. Consecutive shutouts in the World Series, and I’m taking the “over” tonight. For [...]

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DFS Tuesday: Rangers Riding Hot and Calgary’s New Lines

By Brad Hayward|2022-11-01T13:14:19-04:00November 1st, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Coming down from my sugar-high, as I had fewer trick-or-treaters than I’d bought candy for…. I think Tage Thompson probably understands this “high” after his 6-point, 9-shot night, eh? But getting down to business, I was looking at unsustainable numbers both for highs and lows, and drawing up potential stacks for fantasy plays tonight. With [...]

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DFS Saturday: The Lesser-Known Gaudreau

By Stephen Dotzel|2022-10-29T01:06:41-04:00October 29th, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

With the third DFS Saturday of the season on tap and many teams having played eight or more games, we’re starting to get a bit of a feel on how teams are looking with so many new faces in new places each season. We’re not even a 1/10th of the way through the season though, [...]

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DFS Thursday: Canucks Start Righting Ship; Oilers Should Be Targeted

By Brad Hayward|2022-10-27T13:44:58-04:00October 27th, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Happy Halloween! First, my “costume” for this past Tuesday, as an NHL prognosticator, didn’t win any contest but wasn’t totally torn in half either. Marc-Andre Fleury shined in Montreal (26 saves on 27 shots, 0.963 Sv%), and while neither Artemi Panarin nor Aleksander Barkov found the scoresheet, they totaled 12 shots on goal, so the [...]

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DFS Tuesday: Fleury Bounces Back, Barkov and Panarin Top Options

By Brad Hayward|2022-10-25T15:18:43-04:00October 25th, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Today I’m beginning the transition from Yahoo DFS to the DraftKings site, which I prefer - although today I’ve intentionally made my selections similar for comparison. I’d prefer not to celebrate my results from Thursday, first truly spectacular “miss” of the season. For today and Thursday, I’ll list both the Yahoo and DraftKings fantasy costs. [...]

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DFS Saturday: Penguins Can Produce

By Stephen Dotzel|2022-10-22T00:55:53-04:00October 22nd, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

If you read last week’s article, I hope you found some of the DFS tips I shared helpful. If you missed that one, I suggest going back and reading through the intro of that here. As for this week, I wanted to take a minute to talk about some of the tools we have available [...]

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Thursday DFS Picks: Vancouver Recovers and Ovechkin is Overpowered

By Brad Hayward|2022-10-20T15:26:52-04:00October 20th, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

So I hit the nail squarely on its head Tuesday, with my New Jersey coming-out party. Dougie Hamilton, Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt, and Mackenzie Blackwood totaling 54.5 fantasy points, AND then my foresight of Philly and Buffalo traveling into Tampa and Edmonton and coming away with road wins…. Yeah, you didn’t see that coming either. [...]

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DFS Tuesday: Breakout Game for Hughes, Bratt, and the New Jersey Devils

By Brad Hayward|2022-10-18T11:38:45-04:00October 18th, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

The season has started, and some teams have outperformed expectations (Boston, Vegas, Philly), while others have laid the proverbial eggs (Vancouver, Minnesota, Ottawa). Trust me, no team will be 82-0 or 0-82 by mid-April, so those deep breathing exercises might be warranted. For today’s matchups, I’m choosing to focus on the New Jersey Devils. Two [...]

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DFS Saturday: Back with the Stacks

By Stephen Dotzel|2022-10-14T21:00:04-04:00October 15th, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

The first DFS Saturday of the NHL season has arrived! It seems like just yesterday we were building showdown lineups for 3-0 games. Actually, come to think of it that was me last night for the first half of the Bears-Commanders NFL game, oops. Shifting back to hockey, the first Saturday is loaded with all [...]

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DFS Thursday: Penguins and Golden Knights to Target

By Brad Hayward|2022-10-13T12:28:35-04:00October 13th, 2022|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Like many fantasy managers, I scan the free agent market for each of my leagues. Sometimes I’m looking for replacement players due to injuries (or just questionable drafting), but just as often it’s for a spot starter or a few games’ gamble on a young guy... which brings up my quick comments before a DFS [...]