NHL DFS: Playoffs 4/18/23 – Fantasy Football Blueprint

Day 2 of the Playoffs and these are some of my favorite games for round 1.

Teams to Target

Vegas
Toronto

Favorite Stacks

VGK – 1 Barbashev-Eichel-Marchesssault-Pietangelo
TOR – 1 Bunting-Matthews-Marner-Holl

Value Stacks

NJ – 3 Meier-Haula-Boqvist-Severson
NYR -3 Lafreniene-Chytil-Kakko-Miller

Goalies

L. Brossoit, VGK
I. Samsonov, TOR

Showdowns

Showdowns are single-game contests where you stack players from 2 teams with one “Captain” spot that costs 1.5x the salary but gives you 1.5x the points. Generally, I play Centers and high-scoring Wingers in the Captain spot. Centers have the highest upside with their combination of goals and assists. I usually do not roster goalies in a Showdown, because they are always among the highest salaries and their scoring is very volatile. The only time you want to play a goalie is if you think they will have 35+ saves, allow less than 2 goals, and will win the game. If you are playing 20+ lineups go for it, otherwise find a better value at forward.

New York Rangers @ New Jersey (-130)

O/U 5.5

I am going with the Rangers experience here. This is also a good game to play Shesterkin in Flex, as this projects to be low scoring.

CPT: Artemi Panarin
Flex: Trocheck, Tarasenko, Trouba
Flex: Hamilton

Tampa Bay @ Toronto (-155)
O/U 6

I am buying in on Toronto this year, at least for the first round. I will also be taking the over at 6.

CPT: Mitch Marner
Flex: Matthews, Bunting, Rielly
Flex: Hagel

Winnepeg @ Vegas (-150)
O/U 5.5

Vegas enters the playoffs red hot and they get Mark Stone back. This series could easily be a sweep. I will be building this as a ⅚ VGK lineup.

CPT: Mark Stone
Flex: Eichel, Barbashev, Stephensen
Flex: Dubois

Seattle @ Colorado (-200)
O/U 6

I am a big fan of Seattle. I love new teams, who are playing well and make the playoffs for the first time. Colorado will probably sweep this series. They have the experience, they are getting healthy and they are playing very well right now.

CPT: Atturi Lehkonen
Flex: MacKinnon, Ratanen, Toews
Flex: Schwartz

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