Daily Faceoff NHL DFS Value Plays — October 23rd
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.
Aliaksei Protas (W, WSH1) – (DK-$4,000 / FD $7,500)
DFO Projection: DK – 5.5 / FD – 7.2
Protas may not have the highest ceiling on this slate, but at $4,000, he’s hard to ignore. He skates on the Captials’ top line, which comes in as Daily Faceoff’s top line to target tonight, and has scored one goal and three points in five games this season. The Capitals and Flyers played last night, where his 0.35 individual expected goals were the most of any Washington player despite playing 13 minutes. He’ll provide some ownership relief compared to other players in his price range.
Bobby Brink (W, PHI3, PP2) – (DK-$3,000 / FD $8,000)
DFO Projection: DK – 5.2 / FD – 6.7
The Flyers are a hard team to pin down given John Tortorella’s penchant for the line blender, but Brink appears to be a solid value play on this slate. He’s averaging 7.4 DraftKings points per game this year, and has a goal and four points in six games. His 10.3 shots per hour are tied for second most of any player in tonight’s game with Alex Ovechkin.
Honourable mentions
- Rasmus Ristolainen (D, PHI-3) ($2,000/$7,000): DK – 5.0 / FD – 6.1
- Trevor van Riemsdyk (D, WSH-2) ($2,600/$7,000): DK – 5.7 / FD – 7.2
- Jakub Vrana (W, WSH3) ($2,800/$6,500): DK – 4.9 / FD – 6.4
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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.