NHL DFS Strategy Guide – Awesemo.com

excerpt from: https://www.awesemo.com/mlb/mlb-dfs/

Because the NHL season overlaps the NBA season, most daily fantasy players choose to play one or the other. One of my goals with Awesemo.com is to make it possible for you to play both NHL and NBA without giving up too much of a competitive advantage or spending all day researching.

Compared to other sports, fantasy NHL is most similar to MLB in terms of team correlation. In a tournament, usually you want to pick players who are going to be playing on the ice together like you would pick players from the same lineup. Since each goal generates on average about 1.7 assists, you can get huge scores when the same group of players scores 2-3 goals.

Lines

The way you can find out what players are playing together on a given day is to head to dailyfaceoff.com or leftwinglock.com. On most days, teams hold a morning skate where they use the same lines as they will in the game later in the evening. Teams will stick closely to these rotations throughout the game. If you want to have more precise information, you can follow beat writers for each team; they usually tweet out updates about 30 minutes before the games.

NHL teams are allowed to dress 18 skaters and two goalies for each game and every skater in the lineup gets significant playing time. You may want to avoid players who see a lot of their time on the penalty kill, because they are more likely to accumulate blocks than shots during that time span which doesn’t help as much to win a tournament. On the other hand, players listed on a power play line get the premium spots for production. The power play listings don’t provide all of the information you need, though. Some players may get a lot of run on both lines while others may see the scraps when that player is off the ice. For more detailed information, refer to box scores which list time in even strength, power play and penalty kill.

Stacking

In a GPP, you should build lineups focusing on player correlations. Usually you’re safe picking players from the same line to have a correlation. If you want to be more advanced, you can review game flow on a site like shiftchart.com. On a big slate, you should stack more than in a small slate. It can also pay to stack defenders from the same team or power play as your forwards to get more of the team’s production, or goalies from the same team as your forwards to have a correlation with the win bonus...