Boston Bruins at Toronto Maple Leafs

The Maple Leafs have a 2-1 series lead and are looking to take full control of this series with a win tonight. The Bruins defense has looked truly bad in this series, allowing three or more goals in both of the losses, something we usually don’t see from them. Toronto has the highest implied goal total tonight of just 2.85, this is playoff hockey after all, the over-unders have adjusted.

The Bruins need their top line of Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand, and David Pastrnak to step up and produce some points, since they don’t always get a lot from their depth players. They are among the most expensive players on the slate and somewhat tough to fit into a lot of lineups since we don’t have enough value options on this slate. Torey Krug, Charlie McAvoy, David Krejci, Jake DeBrusk, and Carlie Coyle are viable secondary options for Boston tonight.

For the Maple Leafs, Auston Matthews finally got his first points of the series in Game 3 where he had two and in reality, the level of production we expected from him. They are still without Nazem Kadri, which has William Nylander as the center on the third forward line, Andreas Johnsson and Kasperi Kapanen on the second forward line. Mitch Marner might be the best fantasy player on the Maple Leafs with his 13 shots and three points in the first three games of this series.

Nashville Predators at Dallas Stars

We have seen each of the three games in this series have five or fewer goals so far, which is where things should continue to go. This is a classic Central Division matchup, which plays very heavy, defensively focused, and less offense overall. That brings us lower prices on these players, specifically on DraftKings tonight, which helps with roster construction, but we know they have limited upside.

The second line for the Stars offers plenty of salary relief with Roope Hintz, Mats Zuccarello, and now Jason Dickson. Jamie Benn is back up the top forward line with Tyler Seguin and Alexander Radulov, which is clearly their best line by a mile, but is also the most expensive. John Klingberg, Miro Heiskanen, and Esa Lindell are usable on both sites tonight due to their prices.

For the Predators, it’s much of the same for them, but almost more so in the playoffs. What I mean by that is that they generally have their production spread out in terms of their offensive production, but now we have players like Craig Smith and Rocco Grimaldi scoring goals, which doesn’t do a whole lot for DFS, since they are very thin options, even on a three-game slate. The value for them comes from their defense, Roman Josi, P.K. Subban, Ryan Ellis, and Mattias Ekholm. They all play an insane amount of minutes and take and block plenty of shots.

Calgary Flames at Colorado Avalanche

Just as I said the other night, if there is any game on the slate to have the most scoring, it’s going to be this game. Colorado has posted nine goals in the last two games of the series after being shutout in Game 1. Colorado has all racked up 95 shots in the past two games, led by Nathan MacKinnon with 12, Mikko Rantanen with eight, Gabriel Landeskog with 10, Tyson Barrie with 10, and Erik Johnson with 11. It looks like Samuel Girard will be out for this game and Cale Makar should continue to be on the second power-play unit.

The Flames as the top seed in the Western Conference need to get things going offensively after scoring only four goals in the past two games. Sean Monahan, Johnny Gaudreau, Matthew Tkachuk, and Elias Lindholm simply aren’t producing in the past two games and are riskier on the high-end of players tonight. Travis Hamonic is actually producing the best fantasy points on defense for the Flames and Mikael Backlund for them at center might be the best option.