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There are eight games on the NHL DFS main slate Monday, with puck drop set for 7 p.m. ET. I ranked my favorite line stacks and a few value plays below, as well as contrarian plays to consider in tournaments.

Before we get after it, the team here at FTN Daily featuring Kenneth Le, Griffin Swanson and me will cover every NHL slate this season which features at least three games.

We’ll all be active in our NHL Discord, even when there is only one or two games on the NHL schedule. It’s important to stay on top of the news, and we’ll help you do that. A last-minute scratch can ruin your lineup if you’re not on top of it, but it can also create a ton of value and opportunity. Everyone inside the NHL DFS chat is on the ball, so keep a close eye.

Below you’ll see a list of all the games on the NHL slate along with the goal total for each. I’ve also listed my favorite stacks, values, one-offs and goalies for the day’s NHL DFS slate. Good luck and let’s get it!

Be sure to check out Mean Streets for daily picks and Dangle Bet Celly for full NHL breakdowns each Tuesday and Thursday.

NHL DFS Strategy and Core Plays

Colorado Avalanche @ Columbus Blue Jackets — 6.5
Pittsburgh Penguins @ New York Rangers — 6
New York Islanders @ Philadelphia Flyers — 5.5
Detroit Red Wings @ Tampa Bay Lightning — 6.5
Florida Panthers @ Toronto Maple Leafs — 6.5
Edmonton Oilers @ St. Louis Blues — 6.5
Los Angeles Kings @ Winnipeg Jets — 5.5
Seattle Kraken @ San Jose Sharks — 5.5

Favorite GPP Line Stacks

Tampa Bay Lightning Line 1

Anthony Duclair, Brayden Point, Nikita Kucherov

With Colorado and Edmonton on the slate and in good spots, we may be able to get the Lightning with low ownership numbers. Since March 1, according to Natural Stat Trick, the Red Wings lead the NHL in shot attempts allowed at 5v5/60. Dylan Larkin missed most of March, but they lost five of six games in March with him in the lineup, including four in a row. Only Columbus has allowed more shots and scoring chances at 5v5/60 than Detroit over the last month, and they rank third in goals allowed (3.46/60). On top of that, Tampa Bay had a league-best 11% shooting rate in March.

Colorado Avalanche Line 1

Jonathan Drouin, Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen

Edmonton Oilers Line 1 & Power Play Line 1

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor McDavid, Zach Hyman OR McDavid, Hyman, Evan Bouchard

Florida Panthers Line 1

Carter Verhaeghe, Aleksander Barkov, Sam Reinhart

The Panthers loaded up their top line and the Maple Leafs are without Morgan Rielly and Timothy Lilegren.

New York Rangers Line 2

Artemi Panarin, Vincent Trocheck, Alexis Lafreniere

Seattle Kraken Line 2

Jaden Schwartz, Jared McCann, Jordan Eberle

This feels like a trap when you consider the Kraken’s puck luck has not been the same this season as last year. Seattle was the only team with a double-digit shooting percentage at 5v5 last season. Over the last month at 5v5, they have a league-low 5.10% shooting rate. Matty Beniers leads the team in expected goals and high danger chances over the past month and his new line with Eeli Tolvanen and Oliver Bjorkstrand check a few boxes, but McCann has a team high 83 shot attempts and 41 shots since March 1. His linemates Eberle and Schwartz are second and third in high danger chances over that span. They’re also all on the first power play together.

San Jose Sharks Line 1

Klim Kostin, Mikael Granlund, Fabian Zetterlund

Pittsburgh Penguins Line 1

Drew O’Connor, Sidney Crosby, Bryan Rust

The Pens are a mess, and the Rangers are rolling right now, but this line has been very good of late. O’Connor has goals in three straight games and Crosby has put his team on his back. They shouldn’t come with a lot of rostership. When these two teams played March 16, we saw 11 goals.

Favorite Individual Plays

Centers

Nathan MacKinnon, COL
Connor McDavid, EDM
Auston Matthews, TOR
Brayden Point, TB — prefer with Kucherov
Leon Draisaitl, EDM
Jared McCann, SEA
Matty Beniers, SEA
Mikael Granlund, SJ
Casey Mittelstadt, COL
Pierre-Luc Dubois, LA

Wingers

Nikita Kucherov, TB
Mikko Rantanen, COL
Zach Hyman, EDM
Artemi Panarin, NYR
Sam Reinhart, FLA
Carter Verhaeghe, FLA
William Nylander, TOR
Matthew Tkachuk, FLA
Anthony Duclair, TB
Fabian Zetturlund, SJ
Drew O’Connor, PIT
Jordan Eberle, SEA
Oliver Bjorkstrand, SEA
Alexis Lafreniere, NYR
Artturi Lehkonen, COL
Steven Stamkos, TB
Andre Burakovsky, SEA
Tyler Bertuzzi, TOR
Bobby McMann, TOR

Defensemen

Cale Makar, COL
Victor Hedman, TB
Evan Bouchard, EDM
Adam Fox, NYR
Connor Timmins, TOR
Mattias Ekholm, EDM
Brandon Montour, FLA
Devon Toews, COL
Sean Walker, COL
Justin Schultz, SEA
Ryker Evans, SEA

Goalies

(In order of preference)

Andrei Vasilevskiy, TB
Igor Shesterkin, NYR
Cam Talbot, LA
Laurent Brossoit, WPG
Mackenzie Blackwood, SJ

My Core

TB L1 & COL L1 — two big spend ups
FLA L1 — contrarian approach — FLA & TB in single entry
NYR L2 — Panarin
SEA L2
SJ L1 — Granlund/Zetterlund
Hedman, Makar, Timmins, Evans
Vasilevskiy, Igor

I don’t really want to play chalky Kraken. I’m more interested in one-offs such as McCann, Eberle, Beniers, Bjorkstrand and Burakovsky. Most of their players are cheap, which will allow you to spend on COL, TB, EDM.

Goal Scorers

Nathan MacKinnon
Brayden Point
Connor McDavid
Carter Verhaeghe
Mikko Rantanen
Artemi Panarin
Drew O’Connor
Anthony Duclair
Jared McCann
Fabian Zetterlund
Pierre-Luc Dubois
Kyle Connor

PrizePicks

Nathan MacKinnon O 4.5 SOG
Jared McCann O 2.5 SOG
Zach Hyman O 3.5 SOG
Brayden Point Point
Nikita Kucherov O 1.5 Points
Nathan MacKinnon O 1.5 Points

Goal scorers and PrizePicks props are listed in order of preference.