NHL DFS Slate Summary: Tuesday, March 12th
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 Tuesday, March 12th
Slate Overview
Before we go any further, let’s give a shout-out to the RG projections and how fantastic they’ve been all season. This article is fun and hopefully useful for many of you, but the projections and being involved in the RG Discord are two of the most valuable assets right now IMHO.
Tonight, we have a tasty 10-gamer, and DraftKings has gifted us with a slightly larger than usual $444 GPP with $25,000 to first instead of the usual $20,000 or $15,000. It’s disappointing because they’ve been running satellites for it, and I expected it to be something like $50,000 to first, $200,000 in total prizes. C’est la vie. It’s probably going to fill a solid 4 hours early.
There are a few fantastic real-life matchups between NYR/CAR and FLA/DAL. As is often the case, this can water down the fantasy appeal of those games, but I’ll look forward to watching as a fan. Then there’s the other end of the spectrum with a quartet of terrible teams all facing off: CLS/MON and ANH/CHI. And there’s arguably more fantasy potential in those games than the aforementioned good teams.
As for the fantasy goodness, there’s plenty of that, too. The Sharks are on the slate, so their opponent (the Flyers) become an immediate target. They’ll be joined by the Avalanche and Wild as teams most likely to garner significant ownership on this slate. Unlike some of the ones we’ve had recently where there was a definitive team in the best spot, I think you can argue for any of these three tonight, and all are fadeable, too. I think that should make for a really interesting
Let’s get into it.
Top Skaters
Let’s start with my thoughts on Nathan MacKinnon. I really, really like him tonight (duh), but the price is now at $10,500, which is the highest we’ve seen all season. I know NHL doesn’t work nearly the same way as NBA where you need a certain multiplier to “hit value”, but with MacKinnon, you’re probably looking for a 3+ point night to make him a must-have at that price. He’s fully capable of it, and I’ll consider him in my SE team, but I don’t think it’s an auto-play like he has been lately in better matchups at home.
Kirill Kaprizov
DraftKings $8,600
You know who has a very similar goal-scoring prop as Nathan MacKinnon at nearly $2,000 cheaper? That would be Mr. Kaprizov (said in the voice of Agent Smith in the same tone he says “Mr. Anderson”). Kaprizov might not have the consistency of some of the game’s other elite, but the mouthwatering upside is apparent when scrolling through the game logs. In his last 11 games, he has had 3 games with 30+ DK points, including 2 with 40+, one of which was a laughably high 63-point masterpiece.
He has the privilege of facing the Coyotes, who recently allowed SEVEN goals to the BLACKHAWKS. I didn’t even know that was possible. These two teams met last week, and Kaprizov’s services weren’t really needed in a comfortable 5-2 victory where he played only 18 minutes, far below his usual 21 to 22. He did manage to find the back of the net, and he’s almost even money to do so again tonight at home.