Monday's main NHL slate on DraftKings has four games: VGK @ BOS, DET @ FLA, COL @ CHI and CGY @ SJS. Lineups lock at 7:00 p.m. ET (4:00 p.m. PT), and the salary cap is $50,000.
Nathan MacKinnon of COL tops our model's board at $9,500. His ceiling is 33.2, the highest on the slate, against a DraftKings average of 19.2. Macklin Celebrini of SJS is the other premium center at $9,000, with a 27.7 ceiling and a 17.2 average. Among wingers, Brady Tkachuk of FLA ($7,900) and Alex DeBrincat of DET ($7,600) carry ceilings of 30.7 and 30.6.
The best value on the sheet is Seth Jones of FLA at $5,200. His ceiling of 26.2 is well above his 13.4 average, and that is a lot of upside for a defenseman at that price. Viktor Arvidsson of DET is another strong value at $6,400, with a 28.0 ceiling. Both DET goalie Daniil Tarasov ($7,200, 22.5 ceiling) and BOS goalie Jeremy Swayman ($7,800, 24.0 ceiling) rank among our top plays. Note that several players carry DraftKings status tags, including Dylan Larkin of DET, Aleksander Barkov and Brad Marchand of FLA (all IR), and Josh Manson of COL (OUT), so check the final lineup status before you finalize.
We don't have ownership figures for this slate, so we can't say where the crowd will gather.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,300 of the $50,000 cap. It pairs MacKinnon ($9,500) with Sam Reinhart ($7,000) at center and fills the wings with Joel Farabee ($5,100), Matvei Gridin ($4,100) and Brett Howden ($2,900). On defense it takes Jones ($5,200) and Justin Faulk ($3,600), with Swayman ($7,800) in goal and Emmitt Finnie ($4,100) at UTIL. Cheap wings like Howden and Gridin are what make room for MacKinnon and Swayman.
Lineups lock at 7:00 p.m. ET.
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