DFS Picks

NHL DFS Picks Today

The plays our model likes most on tonight's slate — split by cash-game floor, tournament ceiling, value, and the chalk we'd fade.

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Cash-game core

Highest floors — safe, high-minutes plays for 50/50s.

  • Mark Stone
    VGK · W
    32.7 floor
  • Nathan MacKinnon
    COL · C
    27.1 floor
  • Cale Makar
    COL · D
    26.3 floor
  • Sergei Bobrovsky
    FLA · G
    25.9 floor
  • Leon Draisaitl
    EDM · C
    25.0 floor
  • Brad Marchand
    BOS · W
    23.4 floor

GPP ceiling

Highest ceilings for tournament leverage.

  • Mark Stone
    VGK · W
    88.0 ceil
  • Cale Makar
    COL · D
    80.1 ceil
  • Nathan MacKinnon
    COL · C
    68.5 ceil
  • Miro Heiskanen
    DAL · D
    63.8 ceil
  • Sergei Bobrovsky
    FLA · G
    62.1 ceil
  • Adin Hill
    VGK · G
    58.9 ceil

Best values

Most projected points per $1,000 of salary.

  • Mark Stone
    VGK · W
    5.82x
  • Cale Makar
    COL · D
    5.71x
  • Brad Marchand
    BOS · W
    5.63x
  • Alexandar Georgiev
    COL · G
    5.15x
  • Zach Hyman
    EDM · W
    5.08x
  • Leon Draisaitl
    EDM · C
    4.84x

Fades

Popular but weak value — leverage the field off these.

  • Aleksander Barkov
    FLA · C
    36% own
  • David Pastrnak
    BOS · W
    38% own
  • Jason Robertson
    DAL · W
    40% own
  • Mikko Rantanen
    COL · W
    33% own

Picks are model-derived from our NHL projections and are for fantasy research only.