Saturday's late NHL slate on DraftKings has three games: DET @ COL, PIT @ LAK and VAN @ EDM. The salary cap is $50,000, and the slate locks at 9:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. PT).
Edmonton owns the top of our model's ranking. Connor McDavid (EDM, C/UTIL) is $9,400 with a ceiling of 40.3 and a DraftKings average of 21.4. Leon Draisaitl (EDM, W/UTIL) is $9,100 with a ceiling of 39.3 and an average of 19.3. Evan Bouchard (EDM, D/UTIL) is $7,700 with a ceiling of 34.4 and an average of 18.2, a big number for a defenseman. Nathan MacKinnon (COL, C/UTIL) is $9,200 with an average of 17.2, but his ceiling of 27.9 trails the Edmonton pair.
Value is where our model gets creative. Artemi Panarin (LAK, W/UTIL) is $7,600 with a ceiling of 29.8, Adrian Kempe (LAK, W/UTIL) is $7,000 with a ceiling of 26.5, and Alex DeBrincat (DET, W/UTIL) is $7,200 with a ceiling of 26.2. At the bottom of the board, Ben Kindel at $4,200, Sam Malinski at $3,200, Kaedan Korczak at $2,700, Drew O'Connor at $2,600 and Michael Rasmussen at $2,500 all land in our top lineup. Goalie news matters here: Tristan Jarry (EDM) and John Gibson (DET) carry DTD tags on DraftKings, while Frederik Andersen (EDM) and Thatcher Demko (VAN) are tagged IR. The fact sheet gives no ownership figures, so we can't say where the crowd will land.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,800 of the $50,000 cap. It plays McDavid ($9,400) and Kindel at center, Draisaitl ($9,100), O'Connor and Rasmussen on the wing, Bouchard ($7,700) and Malinski on defense, Devon Levi (EDM, G) at $8,400 in goal and Korczak at UTIL. Three Edmonton stars and the Edmonton goalie are paid for by cheap depth everywhere else.
Lock is Saturday, 11/7, at 9:00 p.m. ET.
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