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8:00 PM :  Boston ( -105 ) at  Tampa Bay ( -115 ) —- T: 5½u-30
10:30 PM :  Vancouver ( 165 ) at  Vegas ( -190 ) —- T: 5½o-15

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I feel like Lehner is the best goalie but I am really feeling a Vancouver stack

I’m still playing SD and there’s a good chance I fade BOS-TB. I have no idea how that one will go. Both have legit depth, with Coyle on L3 for BOS and Gourde-Coleman-Goodrow having some good games for TB. Top lines are both elite, and L2s are very fine too. No idea if they’ll play it safe or open the play. I also don’t expect any line change, so no edge unless I hear Pasta is out again or something like that.

Speaking of line changes, there’s something almost no one knows that I do know. Last game, VAN tried some new combos. They actually started and played most of the game with Horvat and Pettersson swapped. They tried some other things when they were leading by a lot, too, and got scored twice, so I expect them to go back to what they started with: Miller-Horvat-Boeser and Pearson-Pettersson-Eriksson.

If Toffoli is back, I expect him to just take Eriksson’s spot. Curious to see how warmups will go, but it’s definitely something to keep an eye on.

DK’s main contest is too top heavy, but it’s a 2K man contest, so it’s winnable. I’ll have a few lineups, but no where close to the maximum allowed. I have 15 for now.

Thanks for that Felix. I noticed it but thought it was a incomplete line change

The lines were changed in game 5 also but line up sites never updated. I think the goal was to split up the offense so O’Reilly line had to pick one to play against.

Would be interesting to see what they run tonight.

They ran a lot of miller Petterson virtanen too.

It feels like Brock is the odd man out in a lot of these, even more so if Toffoli is back

Too early for lineups?

Yes, here are projected. Boston changed Line 3 for tonight which has been noted in the below. Follow beat writers on Twitter for updates.

Bruins vs. Lightning
8 p.m. ET; NBC, SN, TVAS

Bruins projected lineup
Brad Marchand — Patrice Bergeron — David Pastrnak

Jake DeBrusk — David Krejci — Ondrej Kase

Nick Ritchie — Charlie Coyle — Anders Bjork

Joakim Nordstrom — Sean Kuraly — Chris Wagner

Zdeno Chara — Charlie McAvoy

Torey Krug — Brandon Carlo

Matt Grzelcyk — Connor Clifton

Jaroslav Halak

Dan Vladar

Scratched: Trent Frederic, Zach Senyshyn, John Moore, Urho Vaakanainen, Jakub Zboril, Maxime Lagace, Jeremy Lauzon, Karson Kuhlman, Par Lindholm

Unfit to play: None

Lightning projected lineup
Ondrej Palat — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov

Alex Killorn — Anthony Cirelli — Tyler Johnson

Barclay Goodrow — Yanni Gourde — Blake Coleman

Pat Maroon — Mitchell Stephens — Cedric Paquette

Victor Hedman — Zach Bogosian

Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak

Mikhail Sergachev — Kevin Shattenkirk

Andrei Vasilevskiy

Curtis McElhinney

Scratched: Braydon Coburn, Mathieu Joseph, Jan Rutta, Luke Schenn, Alexander Volkov, Scott Wedgewood, Carter Verhaeghe

Unfit to play: Steven Stamkos

Canucks vs. Golden Knights
10:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, SN, TVAS

Canucks projected lineup
J.T. Miller — Elias Pettersson — Jake Virtanen

Tanner Pearson — Bo Horvat — Brock Boeser

Antoine Roussel — Adam Gaudette — Brandon Sutter

Tyler Motte — Jay Beagle — Loui Eriksson

Alexander Edler — Troy Stecher

Quinn Hughes — Christopher Tanev

Oscar Fantenberg — Jordie Benn

Jacob Markstrom

Thatcher Demko

Scratched: Olli Juolevi, Justin Bailey, Jalen Chatfield, Louis Domingue, Tyler Graovac, Brogan Rafferty

Unfit to play: Micheal Ferland, Josh Leivo, Tyler Toffoli, Tyler Myers

Thanks for posting these. Every time I look at team’s Twitters there is no news about any confirmed lineups.

Sorry I missed the beat writers part. Thank you.

Yes, all I have seen from beat writers is:

TB coach says status quo.
Ritchie and Bjork back on third line tonight
Toffoli is out.

Thank you rgreuli that helps a lot. Good luck!

Should be an interesting slate. Good luck everyone!

Back to ya Mr. CANUCKAGE

Didn’t realize the forum contest was a 50/50 tonight

Anybody play “series” on DK? Did you take both goalies? I panic entered and only have Halak in one and neither in the other. I think I screwed that up…

I did play series and I did use both goalies

I did make a mistake though. I used Palat. 7400 means he’s overpriced. He should be more like 5000.

I would think that’s optimal. I was surprised goalies were so low owned. Good luck!

Does anybody know why they aren’t offering the new series format for each series?

it was the same for NBA

they chose one series to do it for

news: Grubauer already ruled out for Game 2 and there’s a good chance he’s out for the series

How likely do we think these lines are?

They’re maybe the ones from two or three games ago?

The lines are projected from NHL.com, that is why I put the follow beat writers on Twitter for updates.

Markstrom and Lehner lead their teams onto the ice for warmups. #VegasBorn #Canucks https://t.co/pKyqz6vitu

Funny stuff.. who the heck knows!!??

#Canucks lines from line rushes (Travis Green will probably change them before puck drop):

Pearson-Horvat-Eriksson
Miller-Pettersson-Boeser
Roussel-Gaudette-Sutter
Motte-Beagle-Virtanen

Edler-Stecher
Hughes-Tanev
Fantenberg-Benn

Markstrom
Demko