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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CGY1 (Lindholm-Monahan-Gaudreau)
This line should be overwhelming chalk despite their high total price tag, but it’s hard to argue against the Flames’ top line in GPPs tonight. It’s not too difficult to differentiate with some cheap, low-owned lines and defensemen, and looking at the matchup, there’s a good chance CGY1 should avoid Landeskog, MacKinnon, and Rantanen at even-strength for most of the game at even-strength. Much like we talked about when targeting the Jets’ top line versus the Avalanche, Colorado is amongst the league-lead in Times Short-Handed and don’t kill penalties with much success when they commit them. For $21,600 with only one other line in their price range, they’re the highest-upside stack on the night and it’s not very close.
NSH1 (Forsberg-Johansen-Arvidsson)
The Preds top line is back together with the return of Filip Forsberg 2 games ago, and this matchup is a great one as they’ll be hosted by the Chicago Blackhawks tonight. The Hawks have had much better results as of late, winning 6 out of their last 10, but in that same span, they’re allowing 32.7 Scoring Chances and 15.5 High-Danger Chances Against per 60 at 5v5 – both numbers the most generous of any team’s last 10 games. NSH1 has been fantastic when healthy, as they’ve posted over 36 Scoring Chances and 17 High-Danger Chances For per 60 at 5v5, and they’ll also have full correlation on the top power-play unit against a league-worst kill. If you’re not getting to one of the expensive lines, NSH1 is a pretty awesome consolation stack.
ANA3 (Cogliano-Kesler-Silfverberg)
If you’re looking for a dirt-cheap line to double-stack with one of the big lines this evening, Anaheim’s 3rd line is has been playing much better after a brutal start to the year. They should be in the shutdown role against the Stone line as Matt Duchene will miss the next few games, but they’ve done a solid job generating some offense over their last 7 games, posting nearly 60 Corsi For per 60 and 27 Scoring Chances For per 60 at 5v5. Kesler and Silfverberg will both get power-play time, so if you don’t need the Cogliano $3K punt, adding in Kase or Rakell (if he returns) would be a good way to differentiate while getting some power-play correlation.
