Daily Faceoff NHL DFS Value Plays — October 17th
Welcome to Daily Faceoff’s NHL DFS Value Plays, where five days a week from Monday to Friday, I break down hockey’s main slate, looking for the top value plays.
This value sheet includes salaries, projections for DraftKings and FanDuel for the top forward and defensemen values, as well as honourable mention forwards and three punt options for blue liners. While the main value plays look at spots to get different and their upside, the others revolve around their ability to produce peripheral points by taking shots and blocking them. These players are always live for the bonus on DraftKings, where all the value plays are directed for.
These projections don’t tell you exactly what’s going to happen. One game sample has too much randomness to pin down exact predictions. Instead, the projections represent a player’s average performance on average if that matchup was played repeatedly. There is a wide range of possible outcomes, and the projections represent each player’s average of those possibilities.
Tuevo Teravainen (W, CHI1, PP1) – vs. SJS – (DK-$4,300 / FD $6,300)
DFO Projection: DK – 11.2 / FD – 15.0
Chicago’s top line looks to be chalky tonight, and rightly so, taking on the San Jose Sharks. Teravainen leads the pack value-wise, and he’s been tremendous to start the year with three goals and five points in four games.
Maxim Tsyplakov (W, NYI2, PP1) – @ STL – ($3,000 / $4,600)
DFO Projection: DK – 8.7/ FD – 10.6
Tsyplakov has quickly become a DFO Value Plays favourite, as his price is still too low. He has one goal and two points in three games, with six shots on goal, averaging 7.0 DKFPPG. There’s more offence in his game to come, but for the time being, he’s still 2x’ing his salary regularly.
Brandt Clarke (D, LAK-2, PP1) – @ MTL – ($3,400 / $5,300)
DFO Projection: DK – 10.2 / FD – 13.2
As mentioned yesterday, Clarke will be a staple here and believe it or not, his DK salary dropped $100. He’s scored four assists in four games — albeit three in one game — but is still providing strong value at this price tag getting top power play unit time.
Honourable mention forwards
- Matvei Michkov (W, PHI1, PP1) ($4,500/$6,600): DK – 10.5 / FD – 13.6
- Cole Sillinger (C, CBJ2, PP1) ($3,300/$4,900): DK – 8.6 / FD – 10.9
- Nick Foligno (W, CHI1, PP1) ($3,000/$): DK – 8.1 / FD – 10.5
Top Punt Defensemen
- Lane Hutson (MTL-2, PP2) ($3,200/$4,700): DK -10.2 / FD – 13.3
- Erik Gustafsson (DET-3, PP1) ($2,600/$4,200): DK – 6.2 / FD – 8.0
- Travis Hamonic (OTT-1) ($2,500/$3,600): DK – 4.6 / FD – 5.6
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Zach Laing is the Nation Network’s news director and senior columnist and makes up one half of the DFO DFS Report. He can be followed on Twitter at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach@thenationnetwork.com.