NHL DFS Slate Summary: Thursday, November 9th
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 Thursday, November 9th
Today’s Games
Slate Overview
A few pieces of bad news before we get started. First, no one in the RG Discord/Community won the $100k the other night. There might not be another opportunity until the NBA All-Star break, but we’ll be ready for it. Number two, I don’t think I won the Audi Spyder R8 as part of the DK giveaway. Similar to the $100k, I had a really good feeling about it, so the disappointment still stings. Now for the good news. The Sharks won a game! Leave it to the Flyers to make an incompetent Sharks team look like a serviceable squad for one night. A lot of this had to do with Mackenzie Blackwood standing on his head, but it’s still encouraging that they competed. Their reward? An angry Oilers team who is self-destructing right now. Yikes.
We inevitably get many of these slates throughout the year, but this is the first in the 2023-2024 season that I can remember. What I mean is the huge talent mismatches in several of the games. Often these materialize later in the season after some teams have been obvious sellers, injuries have ravaged a team, etc. But tonight is the perfect storm where you have many of the best teams (or at least loads of potential in the case of the Oilers) against many of the worst. The Lightning, Stars, Avalanche, and Oilers could all lay claim to the top team of the night to target, which makes this a fun slate for MME-junkies and a nightmare for a single-entry player like myself.