Uncorrelated!
Nonsense!
Bullshit!
Lineup!
The rallying cry of a 14 game slate.
There’s so many players that more often than not some sort of uncorrelated nonsense bullshit lineup takes first.
Can’t worry about it! It’s just the way it is.
Focus on narrowing down your player pool. There will be great teams, lines, player options left behind. Gotta be ruthless in trimming them down.
Since there are so many games tonight and SEVEN right at lock here’s a quick rundown of any potential landmines.
https://twitter.com/ycmmat/lists – if you are like me and you work on a ‘trust but verify’ system of information these are all the beat writers per team and an “Everyone” one as well.
REPORTED = should have the correct lines from DFO
EDM – REPORTED
CAR – REPORTED
CHI – Taylor Hall OUT double check
CLS – REPORTED but “may be changes” – with Laine coming back from being bench these could be wildly different
NJ – REPORTED Hischier out.
DET – REPORTED – Walman back
FLA – REPORTED – barkov OUT
BOS – No morning skate – likely same as last game, which is what we currently have.
PIT – questionable as hell – Hinostroza on L1-Nylander L2 – is an educated guess and those lines could be in a blender
NYR – REPORTED
WPG – REPORTED
TB – REPORTED
BUF – REPORTED
WAS – REPORTED – kuznetsov OUT
NYI – REPORTED
PHI – REPORTED
ARI – Cooley/Keller/Schmaltz L1
STL -REPORTED
VGK – no morning skate – likely same as the end of last game, which is what we currently have.
DAL – no morning skate – likely same as the end of last game, which is what we currently have
CGY – REPORTED – ZARY OUT
NSH – REPORTED – mcdonough back
MTL – REPORTED
ANA – REPORTED
VAN – No morning skate – likely same as last game, which is what we currently have.
COL – No morning skate – likely same as last game, which is what we currently have.
SJ – REPORTED
SEA – REPORTED
Slate Specific Thoughts:
Option A – Top 7 from each full line (7 from each of FL1, FL2, FL3)
Will the Oilers be popular? Probably not – everyone loves Carolina D. Seems like a good day for a McDavid smash.
SEA1 gonna be way more popular than they should be for a 14 game slate – just avoid them and play SEA3 instead!
Option B: Top 20 lines by median projection.
Defencemen
With 14 games there are an ungodly amount of D on PP1
Note that Kevin Korchinski took over from Seth Jones on Chicago PP1. Sounds like they will give him a bit of leash there. That Vince Dunn price amongst the highest projected D is gonna make him pretty heavily owned.
Goalie
28 goalies.Barf. Most of the higher projected ones are cheap. God speed.
