NHL DFS Core Plays January 1: Top DraftKings and FanDuel Picks

Welcome to the NHL DFS core plays for the first full daily fantasy hockey slate of the season! You will see three tiered options for Yahoo! DFS, DraftKings, and FanDuel every night that there are three or more games. Otherwise, you are still getting the same great top plays and the Discord chat is still open for all of your questions. Don't forget to check out our NHL daily projections, the NHL DFS lineup generator, today's NHL betting odds, and NHL starting lines. Have fun and let's make some money together tonight!

Notes:

• Florida and Ottawa have the highest implied team total at 3.5. ( Chicago has the lowest at 2.9).
• Tage Thompson has 12 goals and 43 shots on goal in the last ten games.
• Jonathan Toews is expected to skate on the top line with Max Domi and Patrick Kane.
• Casey Cizikas is expected to skate on the Islander top line for the third game in a row. 
• Rasmus Dahlin has blocked four or more shots in three of the last five games.
• Adam Larsson has points in his last five games.
• Ilya Sorokin has given up three total goals in his last three starts.
• Igor Shesterkin is the top cash-game goalie on the slate, and Sergei Bobrovsky for GPP.
• Goalies are voodoo.

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DK

Position	Top Tier	Mid-Tier	Value-Tier
C	Tage Thompson	Mathew Barzal	Jonathan Toews
W	Timo Meier	Alexander Barabanov	Kaapo Kakko
D	Rasmus Dahlin	Jacob Trouba	Travis Hamonic
G	Igor Shesterkin	Ilya Sorokin	Sergei Bobrovsky

FD

Position	Top Tier	Mid-Tier	Value-Tier
C	Tage Thompson	Tim Stutzle	Casey Cizikas
W	Timo Meier	Patrick Kane	Jack Quinn
D	Rasmus Dahlin	Jacob Trouba	K'Andre Miller
G	Igor Shesterkin	Ilya Sorokin	James Reimer

Y! Daily

Position	Top Tier	Mid-Tier	Value-Tier
C	Tage Thompson	Mathew Barzal	Jonathan Toews
W	Timo Meier	Alex DeBrincat	Tim Stutzle
D	Rasmus Dahlin	Adam Larsson	Matt Benning
G	Ilya Sorokin	Anton Forsberg	James Reimer