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: Ottawa’s Good Matchup; New Jersey’s Second Line; Harley and Hughes, and More

By Andrew Santillo|2025-04-08T11:14:37-04:00April 8th, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day to all my DFS folks! There are a lot of “ifs” on this slate upcoming. If certain players are going to be healthy, if lines are going to stay the same, if certain starters are in net, tonight is going to be a slate that you’ll need to check in on morning skate [...]

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DFS Saturday: Leafs and Habs Are Easy Builds

By Andrew Santillo|2025-04-05T10:23:32-04:00April 5th, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

Good morning, all! We got a decent slate ahead of us tonight, team wise that is. The start times might be a little wonky, but I like the clubs we have on the board tonight. With that, let’s see if we can’t win a little money before the regular season ends. Slate PreviewTorontoWe’re already into [...]

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DFS Thursday: Build Around Nathan MacKinnon; Tampa Bay’s Top Forwards; Winnipeg in Vegas

By Andrew Santillo|2025-04-03T11:32:04-04:00April 3rd, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good morning, all! I’m going to say at 8:38 am CST that I love this slate and hopefully have that same sentiment at 8:38 pm CST. I have two spots that I have real interest in and then a game to where I may be going to get my filler stack.Slate PreviewColorado AvalanchePeople who play [...]

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DFS Tuesday: Ottawa At Home; Boston’s Bounce-Back; Edmonton’s Top Line, and More

By Andrew Santillo|2025-04-01T11:41:00-04:00April 1st, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day to all my DFS people! I am fully prepared for anything on this 10-game slate we have ahead of us tonight. If you told me the San Jose Sharks nuked the slate, I’d believe you. You could say that by the end of the night, the Tampa Bay Lightning’s top line took care [...]

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DFS Saturday: Senators and Stars Stacks

By Andrew Santillo|2025-03-29T12:33:49-04:00March 29th, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

Hello, all! This is going to be a wild slate. I’ve looked at each matchup now a couple of times and have come to the point where I may make three lineups just to try and get a little unique. The contests on DraftKings are a little funny today, so if you read this before [...]

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DFS Thursday: Capitals Power Play Situation; Blues Being Productive; Kings of Correlation

By Andrew Santillo|2025-03-27T10:56:03-04:00March 27th, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good morning, all! We have a really nice slate coming at us today. Some slates I look up and down a Chicago “couple-a two-tree times”, to decide where I’m going but today, I came to my decision fairly quick. I genuinely like this slate, and it may be because yesterday’s four-gamer was as I put [...]

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DFS Tuesday: Toronto’s Top Stars; St. Louis’ Second Line; Hellebuyck At Home, and More

By Andrew Santillo|2025-03-25T10:57:49-04:00March 25th, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day to everyone out there in DFSland! Somehow cashed last night with nothing but that little snowflake icon above a quarter of my players scores, and that included a zero from Mavrik Bourque. I mean, I’ll take it, I guess? Tonight, is a funny slate but there’s a couple decent spots I may be [...]

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DFS Saturday: Look for Cheap Filler Stacks

By Andrew Santillo|2025-03-22T11:21:38-04:00March 22nd, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice|

Good morning, all! We have a very interesting slate coming up for DFS on the six-game main slate with Toronto, Colorado, Vegas, all in excellent matchups. Even Edmonton is in a great matchup, and that’s keeping in mind the status of both Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, who are listed as “out”. There aren’t too [...]

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DFS Thursday: Great Washington Home Matchup; Utah to Bounce Back; Noah Hanifin’s Power Play Prowess

By Andrew Santillo|2025-03-20T13:37:31-04:00March 20th, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day, all! This morning, I woke up ready as can be to sit and watch tonight’s slate which I assumed was only a handful of games that I could have going along with March Madness starting today. Nope. 14 games. Believe me, I will be going over this in Looking Ahead tomorrow. Stay hot, [...]

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DFS Tuesday: Detroit’s Second Scoring Line; Nashville’s Defensive Issues; Dallas In A Great Spot

By Andrew Santillo|2025-03-18T13:31:26-04:00March 18th, 2025|Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice, Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)|

Good day to everyone out there in DFSland! Last night I did what has become a recent trend of mine for DFS…got busy at work and rushed a lineup into my DraftKings. Turns out the Kings power play I threw into the ring at the buzzer was not the play, oh well!Today’s slate is a [...]