NHL Recap for 1-19-12 and Today's Picks

Recap of 1-19-12

How did we do yesterday? Well to be short and sweet.. Great goalies and average on our line play. Let's look at the numbers.

Steve Mason           3.6 points
Jimmy Howard        9.3 points
John Tavares           6.3 points
Jakub Voracek         0.4 points
Marian Gaborik        4.1 points
Derek Stepan           1.0 points

Overall not too upset at the picks. We keep being dead on for goalies and we also loved the top 2 lines yesterday for the Islanders. These top two lines put up an amazing 7 points among them (7 of 10 points for NYI). If you picked the first line for the Islanders you were rewarded with 1 goal and 3 assists. Not a bad night.

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Today's Picks:

Today we find some great value at the RW position and Center position. We also really like a cheap goalie to get a win...

Goalie Pick of the Day:
Brent Johnson: Penguins- At the moment he is likely to be in goal tonight. IF he is in net (we will tweet an update when we hear for sure), we love his price of just over $8,500 on Draftstreet. Johnson should be in a great position to give up 2 goals or less and get the win. The Penguins offense is on fire right now and today is a great day to take advantage of it against the Canadiens who will be on the road.

Forwards and Centers of the Day:
Teddy Purcell: Lightning- Everyone knows Steven Stamkos for the Lightning is the player to have on this team, but why not take adavantage of Stamkos' skills? Take Purcell, his line-mate, for only $6,500 on Draftstreet. Purcell being on the top power play unit seals the deal for us. He is on the road against Lehtonen and the Stars, but we like the Lightning for at least 2 goals and we like Stamkos and Purcell to score a point each.

Chris Kunitz: Penguins- As in the case of Purcell, Kunitz plays with arguably the best center in the game right now. Malkin, a player we splurged on for our DS team tonight, is a great player and also a line-mate of his not to mention they are both on the first team power play. Kunitz has 5 points in his last 8 games, but we like him to score at least one point tonight.

Jonathan Toews: Blackhawks- We are going to keep this one simple.. He's Toews, against Jose Theodore who gave up 3 goals the other night, and he scored two goals in his last game. Consider the $13,800 you have to spend to get him a bargain.