Welcome to another week of the daily fantasy hockey morning coffee. We start with a small slate of just five games to work with. There a few teams that jump off the page as teams I certainly want to stack tonight:
Calgary Flames @ Arizona Coyotes
Nashville Predators @ Philadelphia Flyers
Anaheim Ducks @ Toronto Maple Leafs
The first team I want to go heavy with is the Calgary Flames. The flames get an Arizona team that I like to pick on tonight. Arizona is second-worst in the NHL with 3.10 goals against per game and have allowed 21 power play goals this season. They have allowed 14 goals over their past four games (seven of those goals did come in one game against the Penguins, so the number is a little inflated) — still, they have allowed four goals or more 11 times this season.
The Flames haven’t exactly been setting the world on fire recently with 10 goals allowed in their past two games — and only generated 45 total shots over those two games. But the Coyotes could be the cure for Calgary’s shot volume blues as they are last in the league with 35.6 shots allowed per game.
We should look to Calgary’s power play as a way to build our rosters tonight as they have scored 10 power play goals over their past seven games and have scored a power play goal in seven straight games.
Johnny Gaudreau $7.6K (7G, 14A, 7 PPP, 60 SOG)
Sean Monahan $6.8K (10G, 9A, 7 PPP, 66 SOG)
Troy Brouwer $4.8K (7G, 8A, 6 PPP, 45 SOG)
(D) Mark Giordano $6.4K (3G, 9A, 5 PPP, 70 SOG)
(D) T.J. Brodie $4.2K (2G, 7A, 4 PPP, 34 SOG)
round out Calgary’s top power play unit.
Matthew Tkachuk/Mikael Backlund/Michael Frolik are a line stack option and have been a top ten line in the NHL in terms of goals produced this season (10 goals, 275 shots for).
As a GPP option using Mike Smith (if he starts) and the Coyotes does have merit tonight. Because Arizona allows so many shots on goal, we always have the potential for a big night from Smith. And a win for Arizona is not out of the question against a Calgary team that has allowed 10 goals over two games. Calgary has also allowed an NHL ninth-worst 2.88 goals per game and while Arizona have not been able to generate many power play chances this season Calgary has been short handed the most times in the NHL (121 times).
Don’t go crazy with this as Arizona is last in the NHL with 2.16 goals scored per game but a Brendan Perlini/Martin Hanzal/Radim Vrbata is a GPP option tonight.
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