NHL News and Notes, October 18

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Jake Hari

Chris Wassel

Steve Bauer (Homercles)

Jeff Votts

Nolan Kelly

For line stack info, check out Jake Hari’s article.

And Jeff Votts has his Power Plays article out as well.

Need projections? Jake Hari and Awesemo have you covered.

Let’s get into tonight’s lineup news and notes:

(Line percentages are 5v5 only)

Arizona Coyotes

Rick Tocchet mixed and matched last game, so consider stacking two-man combos here, if at all. Lines are the same. Arizona isn’t as bad as their record suggests, so I don’t think going back to them here is the worst idea, especially against a returning, possibly rusty Corey Crawford, who draws his first start of the season tonight. Unfortunately, ARZ1 has been priced up.

Boston Bruins

No morning skate. No major changes. Check line rushes, but changes unlikely.

BOS1: 28%, BOS2: 25%

Buffalo Sabres

No major changes.

BUF1: 28%, BUF2: 21%

Chicago Blackhawks

No major changes. Top two lines are getting a huge chuck of the 5v5 action.

CHI1: 29%, CHI2: 31%

Colorado Avalanche

No major changes

COL1: 33% COL2 25%

Columbus Blue Jackets

The lines are the same, but Torts was shuffling last game. Both Alex Wennberg and Cam Atkinson saw time on the top line. No three-man combo got more than 12% even strength ice time. If you’re stacking, consider two-man stacks or PP stacks, if you want to be on the safe side. The PP1 was deployed at a 70% rate last game.

Detroit Red Wings

Welcome to the daily crapshoot that is the Detroit Red Wings, who, in my opinion, are the hardest team to stack in the NHL.

Darren Helm was moved up to the top line during the team’s recent shellacking at the hands of the Habs. Thomas Vanek is down on the fourth line with Anthony Mantha.

The power play is just as confusing. PP2 got more ice time than PP1. Michael Rasmussen looks to be taking over for Martin Frk on the “PP1.”

Edmonton Oilers

No major changes. McLellan shuffled the middle six last game.

EDM1: 23%, no other three man combo above 12%

Los Angeles Kings

New lines for the Kings tonight:

Alex Iafallo-Anze Kopitar-Tyler Toffoli

Ilya Kovalchuk-Mike Amadio-Jeff Carter

Austin Wagner-Adrian Kempe-Trevor Lewis

New Jersey Devils

John Quenville is off the third line, Drew Stafford takes over, alongside Pavel Zacha and Marcus Johansson.

New York Islanders

No major changes.

NYI1: 19%, NYI2: 23%

Philadelphia Flyers

Nolan Patrick is out, so Jordan Weal will continue to take over the second line centre duties.

Pittsburgh Penguins

After an unexpected loss to the Canucks on Tuesday, the Penguins are moving Derick Brassard back to the third line. Bryan Rust moves up to ride shotgun on the top line.

San Jose Sharks

No major changes.

SJ1: 24% SJ2: 27%

Tampa Bay Lightning

No major changes.

The lightning are a bit of a fantasy mess right now, with Steve Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov off TB1 and Alex Killorn and J.T. Miller on the PP1.

Toronto Maple Leafs

No major changes.

TOR1: 26%, TOR2 25%, TOR3: 19%

Vancouver Canucks

No major changes. Canucks are not playing as well as their record suggests. Smash spot for the Jets.

Strange useage rates last game:

VAN1: 21% VAN2: 12% VAN3: 25% VAN4: 25%

If Green doesn’t trust his top two lines right now, with the loss of Elias Pettersson, double down on WPG tonight.

Winnipeg Jets

Dustin Byfuglien is likely to play tonight and he’s expected to take over the PP1 duties from Josh Morrissey. Buffy still has a DTD tag next to his name, so that should lower ownership.

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