Dylan Larkin Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

With this being the last day of the season and a lot of teams playing for nothing it is hard to not take a look at one of the top lines in the league over the last two weeks. The Red Wings have been out of the play-off picture for a while which prompted them to put Tyler Bertuzzi, Anthony Mantha and Dylan Larkin together as the team’s top line. Over the last two weeks the team has gone 6-1 which has been propelled by the 17 goals and 21 assists that the top line has collected. There is no reason that they won’t play this evening as they are not in the play-offs and should not rest anyone. The added bonus here is that they play a Buffalo team that has given up a league leading 44 goals in their last 11 games. Detroit is the home team which means that the top line will skate against whatever line that head coach Jeff Blashill desires. Larkin leads the team with 32 goals and 41 assists while Bertuzzi became the first player in team history to notch at least three points in four consecutive games.

Dylan Larkin has had a solid start of 2019, with 7 goals and 14 goals in 15 games so far. The Detroit Red Wings have stacked their top line with what little talent they have as Larkin will be centering Anthony Mantha and Gustav Nyquist. This line also remains together on the top power play unit which gives them full-game correlation. Additionally, the opposing Ottawa Senators have been terrible. Over the last month, they are dead last allowing a 66.83 CA/60 which should give this line plenty of opportunities.

The Detroit Red Wings are visiting Brooklyn to take on the New York Islanders, who are on the tail-end of a back to back. The Islanders lost to the Buffalo Sabres last night and once again struggled to find even mediocre goaltending. With the team tired and Thomas Greiss likely to be between the pipes, Detroit is in rare spot in which they are an interesting play. Greiss has an abysmal 3.94 goals against average and .887 save percentage and his team will likely be giving him less help tonight as they play their second game in as many nights. Dylan Larkin is playing on the second line, centering Tomas Tatar and Andreas Athanasiou, and despite being on the road they should be able to get some decent matchups. With John Tavares likely to be lined up against the Henrik Zetterberg line, Larkin and co. should have the better matchup against Mathew Barzal.

Outside of the Toronto Maple Leafs offense I am also big on Alexander Ovechkin and the New York Islanders top line tonight, but it will be difficult to fit them all in, so instead I will talk about some value. The San Jose Sharks defensive game has gone in the tank recently (especially on the road), and I think we see a home and rested Detroit Red Wings squad take advantage of this struggling Sharks team playing their second game in as many nights. The Detroit Red Wings second line is young, fast, and talented, and I think they dominate while on the ice. This trio also correlates well on the Red Wings second power play unit, and they have multi-goal upside tonight at the Little Caesars Arena. In cash games, Dylan Larkin is the top draw, with his linemates making excellent value options. In GPPs, this stack is your top point-per-dollar line stack on the night.

After a sophomore slump last season, Larkin has already matched last season's production (32 points) through the first 38 games of the 2017-18 campaign. The speed demon has scored two goals and dished out seven assists over his last eight games is finally seeing steady minutes on the power-play as the center of the second unit. With Anthony Mantha expected back in the lineup for the Wings, he'll do two things to help further my interest in Larkin; 1) Mantha is consistently more heavily owned than his 21-year-old teammate, and 2) He'll keep Mark Stone's pestering defense away from Larkin as Guy Boucher has used Stone heavily against the Mantha line in both prior meetings between these teams.

If you're looking to pick on the league's worst team tonight, consider taking Detroit's second line which features talented young playmakers Dylan Larkin, Anthony Mantha, and Andreas Athanasiou. With 10 points in his first 12 games this season, Larkin and his linemates draw a juicy matchup against an Arizona squad that has just one win during the first month of the season. Also seeing time on Detroit's second power play unit, I especially like this line's chances of breaking through on the power play tonight against an Arizona team that ranks dead last in penalty kill percentage this season.