The following Spotlight Stacks were selected by Awesemo.com writer Jake Hari. For more analysis on the slate, check out the Projections page as well as Awesemo’s NHL Player and Stack Rankings. Subscribe to the Awesemo.com YouTube Channel to get notifications when “Hit The Ice” (4ET Weekdays) goes live!
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**Schenn will take Maroon’s spot on STL1**
STL1 (Maroon-O’Reilly-Tarasenko)
The Blues’ top line comes into this game with some great 5v5 numbers, including 33.5 Scoring Chances For per 60 and 13.6 High-Danger Chances For per 60, and the matchup in Anaheim is certainly exploitable. The Ducks have allowed the 3rd-most High-Danger Chances Against per 60 over any team’s last 10 games and rank inside the top-3 in CA/60, SCA/60, and HDCA/60 for the season overall. The Getzlaf-Rakell combo, which would likely be the line STL1 will go up against, has had issues defensively all season, and the Ducks are 3rd in Times Short-Handed this year. Full power-play correlation for $15,900 in a good matchup makes them one of the best values on the slate.
TOR2 (Marleau-Matthews-Marner)
The Toronto version of the 3M line will skate together tonight at home going up against a Caps team that just surrendered 7 goals at home to the Sharks last night. The Caps’ underlying defensive numbers are some of the worst in the league no matter which category (CA/60, SCA/60, HDCA/60, PK%, etc.) you look at, so the Matthews’ line going up against the high-paced Kuznetsov line is one of the best spots on the night. Matthews and Marner will be on the top power-play with the likes of Tavares, Kadri, and Rielly, and a $19,600 price tag on DraftKings makes this line pretty easy to fit in with another mid-tier stack.
VGK2 (Tuch-Stastny-Pacioretty)
The Vegas 2nd line will get to see the most time against the 2nd line for the Predators, which has struggled no matter who is centering Smith and Fiala. The Fiala-Smith duo is allowing almost 60 Corsi Against per 60 and 11.6 High-Danger Chances Against per 60, while the Preds’ defensive numbers as a whole are noticeably worse away from Nashville. VGK2 has been great at generating offense at even-strength, and they’re fully-correlated on the 2nd power-play unit, where the Preds have struggled (75.9% kill) in the month of January. Because of the moderate (3.2) implied team total, they should go underowned in tournaments tonight despite it being a favorable even-strength matchup.
