Wednesday's NHL showdown on DraftKings is a single game, NSH @ ANA, and the slate locks Wed 11/11 at 10:00 p.m. ET (7:00 p.m. PT). With a $50,000 cap and a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary, roster construction matters more than usual in a one-game pool.
Cutter Gauthier of ANA tops our model's board at $10,400, with a ceiling of 29.5 and a DraftKings average of 18.8. Both numbers lead the slate, so he is the natural captain candidate. Juuse Saros (NSH) is next at $9,800, with a ceiling of 24.7 and a 14.5 average. Steven Stamkos (NSH) at $8,800 carries a 23.3 ceiling, and Ryan O'Reilly (NSH) at $8,400 sits at 22.8. Beckett Sennecke (ANA) costs $9,600 with a 22.1 ceiling, and Roman Josi (NSH) at $9,000 has a 20.5 ceiling and a 13.5 average.
The sheet doesn't list projections for the lower-priced options, so the cheap end of the pool is where lineup builders will have to do their own digging. Among the higher-priced names, Leo Carlsson (ANA) at $8,600 offers a 21.1 ceiling and a 12.2 average, which makes him one of the cheaper routes to ANA upside. Laurent Brossoit (ANA) at $10,200 is the priciest option with the lowest ceiling of the group, 19.7, so the price is hard to justify on those numbers.
DraftKings has tagged several players as unavailable. Jonathan Marchessault (NSH) is listed OUT. Troy Terry, Ryan Poehling, Ian Moore and A.J. Greer of ANA are tagged IR, as is William Trudeau of NSH. Ownership figures aren't available for this slate.
Our model's top lineup uses the full $50,000. It captains Gauthier at $15,600 and rounds out the flex spots with Carlsson at $8,600, Tim Washe at $2,400, Saros at $9,800, Drew Helleson at $4,000 and Sennecke at $9,600. The two cheap flex players, Washe and Helleson, are what pay for the top-end salaries around them.
Lineups lock Wed 11/11 at 10:00 p.m. ET.
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