Tuesday's one-game NHL showdown sends CBJ to PHI, and the slate locks at 7:00 p.m. ET (4:00 p.m. PT). DraftKings uses a captain slot here that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary, all within a $50,000 cap.
The top of our model's ranking is led by Dan Vladar of PHI at $10,600. He carries a ceiling of 19.8 against a DraftKings average of 12.0. Among the big-ticket skaters, Zach Werenski of CBJ costs $11,000 with a ceiling of 18.1 and the slate's highest DraftKings average at 13.2. Trevor Zegras of PHI at $9,200 has the highest ceiling among the top plays at 22.3, and Adam Fantilli of CBJ at $9,400 sits at 18.3. Jet Greaves of CBJ is priced at $9,600 but shows a ceiling of just 12.4, which makes him the hardest of the expensive names to justify.
The value end of the board is where our model finds its edge. Denton Mateychuk of CBJ costs only $5,000 yet carries a ceiling of 21.8, nearly matching Zegras at almost half the price. Cole Sillinger of CBJ at $4,000 has a ceiling of 17.5, and Cole Knuble of PHI at $3,600 offers a ceiling of 15.5 with a DraftKings average of 10.1. Those three let a lineup spend up at the top and still fill out the roster.
The fact sheet does not include ownership figures, so we can't say where the crowd will land. DraftKings status tags are worth a check before building: Owen Tippett, Travis Konecny, Cam York and Nikita Grebenkin of PHI are tagged IR, Rasmus Ristolainen of PHI is tagged OUT, and Ivan Provorov, Isac Lundestrom and Caleb MacDonald of CBJ are tagged IR.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,300 of the $50,000 cap. It puts Dan Vladar in the captain slot at $15,900, then fills the FLEX spots with Matvei Michkov at $8,000, Travis Sanheim at $8,600, Oliver Bonk at $7,400, Sean Monahan at $4,600 and Noel Acciari at $4,800. Lineups lock at 7:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday.
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