Sunday's NHL showdown is a single-game slate, PIT @ ANA, with a $50,000 cap and a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary. It locks Sun 11/8 at 8:00 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m. PT).
Our model's top plays are headed by Cutter Gauthier of ANA at $10,200. His ceiling of 25.8 is the highest on the board, and his DraftKings average sits at 17.0, well clear of the rest of the group. Beckett Sennecke (ANA, $9,200) is right behind with a 25.6 ceiling and a 13.3 average. Leo Carlsson (ANA, $9,400) carries a 20.8 ceiling and a 12.6 average, a notch below the other two at a similar price. On the PIT side, Arturs Silovs costs $10,000 with a 14.5 ceiling and an 8.4 average, which is a tough number to chase at that salary.
The value plays are where the slate gets interesting. Nick Jensen (ANA) costs just $2,000 and still shows a 14.6 ceiling and a 9.1 average, an easy way to free up cap space. Pavel Mintyukov (ANA, $4,600) has a 21.2 ceiling, while PIT's Declan Carlile ($4,800, 22.0 ceiling) and Kaedan Korczak ($5,000, 23.2 ceiling) offer real upside from the cheaper tiers. Note that DraftKings lists Bryan Rust, Elmer Soderblom, Trevor van Riemsdyk and Ryan Graves of PIT as IR, Ville Koivunen of PIT as OUT, and Troy Terry, Ryan Poehling and Ian Moore of ANA as IR.
We don't have ownership figures for this slate, so we can't say where the crowd will land.
Our model's top lineup uses $48,500 of the $50,000 cap. It puts Gauthier in the captain slot at $15,300, then fills the flex spots with Tim Washe ($2,600), Mintyukov ($4,600), Tommy Novak ($7,400), Sennecke ($9,200) and Carlsson ($9,400). Washe and Mintyukov supply the savings that make room for three high-priced ANA forwards around the captain.
Lineups lock Sun 11/8 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
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