NHL DFS Slate Summary: Saturday, October 21st
Welcome to the RotoGrinders NHL DFS Slate Summary. In this article, we’ll concentrate on the key elements of DFS success while delivering analysis on the upcoming slate of NHL games for DraftKings and FanDuel. We’ll discuss today’s NHL DFS player projections, player correlations and NHL stacking, NHL starting lineups, differentiation tactics using NHL projected ownership, and recommendations on ways to create lineup diversity if entering multiple lineups using LineupHQ.
NHL DFS Picks: Slate Summary for Saturday, October 21st
Today’s Games
Slate Overview
Sometimes I’ll mention the Discord channel and RG community later in the article, but it deserves the first mention today. If you haven’t been following along, people in the Discord channel have been taking home five-figure wins pretty much every night. The latest shoutout goes to mr_papageorgio for taking down Thursday night’s $50k to first contest, narrowly beating out Felixxberg.
Tonight, we have a massive 13-game slate. Full disclosure- these aren’t my favorite sized slates to play (or even write about), but you’ll still be getting my full effort in trying to break it all down. The good news is that on a slate this size, we can normally remove a handful of teams from the player pool. It was tougher than usual to do this, and I only came up with the Flyers, Sharks, Blackhawks, and Blue Jackets on my first pass. As far as the potential chalk, the Wild should be very popular due to a favorable matchup against a Blue Jackets team on the second half of a back-to-back. Both teams in the TOR-TB game, the Oilers (always), Panthers, Golden Knights, and Preds should also garner ownership.
Top Skaters
Nikita Kucherov
DraftKings $8,300
The other night, I mentioned that Kirill Kaprizov had some of the widest home/road splits of any of the game’s elite, but Nikita Kucherov gives him a run for his money. Last year, he had 66 points at home compared to just 47 on the road despite playing in all 82 games. This year, he’s continuing the trend in a small sample size. In two games at home, he has four goals. In three games on the road, he has none. Tonight, the matchup against the Maple Leafs does nothing to scare me off that trend continuing. Toronto has allowed an average of four goals per game, and at least three goals in all four contests. The savings on Kucherov over the other top options can be used to upgrade the rest of your lineup.
Kirill Kaprizov
DraftKings $8,000
Remember that Kirill Kaprizov guy? :) Yeah, I just can’t quit him. And if DraftKings continues to price him at a tier below the other elite players, I don’t see that stopping any time soon. Similar to Kucherov, his home/road splits were extreme last year. At home, he had 48 points in 39 games compared to just 28 in 34 games on the road. On DK, this led to him averaging 5.4 more points per contest at the Xcel Energy Center. Thanks to a favorable matchup against Columbus, his goal-scoring props of -110 are the third-best on the slate, trailing only the much more expensive McDavid (-120) and Matthews (-115).