Spending up in any daily fantasy lineup is how to get the superstars and the highest upside players in your lineup.
In NHL DFS, it’s different from spending up in sports like NBA or NFL. Someone can be one of the highest salaried players at his position and put up a total dud of a performance, and paying that much for him would be a huge mistake. Let’s make sure we are spending salary in the right spots when building our lineups tonight.
Tuesday night has six games on the schedule. Here are some studs.
Aleksander Barkov, Center, Florida Panthers
FanDuel Salary: $9,000
Aleksander Barkov still is a good matchup even against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.
Barkov, the Florida Panthers center, has been excellent at home. He has 8 goals and 10 assists in his last 16 home games.
His shot volume is pretty solid at home at just over 3.40 shots per game. This is compared to 3.14 shots per contest on the road.
Overall, Barkov has two goals and five assists in his previous four games in February. It is definitely accurate to say the center is on a roll along with Jonathan Huberdeau. With Florida averaging more than four goals per game at home, the top line is still an attractive target on Tuesday.
Barkov is a great option and even Sam Bennett is for power-play correlation possibilities, too.
Vladimir Tarasenko, Wing, St. Louis Blues
FanDuel Salary: $8,400
Vladimir Tarasenko will return to the lineup against the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night.
Whatever was bothering Tarasenko was minor according to Craig Berube, and the Russian winger has an excellent matchup. He returns prominently on the top unit of the power play.
Tarasenko has three goals and four assists in his last six games. Also, he goes up against the 24th-ranked penalty kill and defense (76.2%; 3.44 goals per game allowed). The Flyers yielded four more goals on Monday at home to Carolina.
With the St. Louis Blues clicking at 26.9% on the man advantage (2nd in the NHL), it is worth taking a look at the Blues' power play as a viable stack.
Tarasenko ranks ninth among wingers at 15.1 projected FanDuel Points. Jordan Kyrou and Pavel Buchnevich are both in the top 10, as well.
Zach Werenski, Defenseman, Columbus Blue Jackets
FanDuel Salary: $6,600
Zach Werenski is heating up at the right time.
The Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman is on a nice five-game real-world point streak.
Werenski draws against a suddenly vulnerable Toronto Maple Leafs team that gave up five goals to the Montreal Canadiens on Monday night.
He has 2 goals and 4 assists in his previous five contests with 21 shots on goal and 7 blocked shots, as well.
Columbus relies on their top blueliner to ignite a good deal of their offense, and lately, Werenski has been more than capable of delivering.
We'll take this matchup against an unrested team.
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