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By Neil Parker Eight games dot the National Hockey League schedule Tuesday with the Islanders-Penguins and Kings-Stars contests leading the pack. Additionally, the Bruins-Sharks tilt has appeal as the two clubs have made a number of significant trades over the years. The Red Wings-Flyers game will also have a postseason atmosphere with a potential four-point swing in play to boost each team's playoff push. [ Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Hockey contest now ] The Maple Leafs, Canadiens and Senators all host playoff-bound clubs, and stand as favorable matchups for the Lightning, Panthers and Wild, respectively. The Capitals also have a solid home matchup and should handle the Hurricanes. Here are your daily starts, values and fades across the various price points. GOALIE Braden Holtby, WAS vs. CAR ($37)  - Holtby has been underwhelming of late with three goals allowed in eight of his past 13 games and a .898 save percentage during the span. He has still won eight of the outings, though, and the matchup is juicy Tuesday. Carolina has averaged just 2.29 goals per road game, and Holtby is 22-3-1 at home with a .924 save percentage and a 2.15 goals-against average. James Reimer, SJ vs. BOS ($26)  - Among starters with at least 20 games, Reimer is third in the league in five-on-five save percentage (.941), and he stood behind the basement-dwelling Maple Leafs for all but two starts. Boston is also an admirable road opponent, as the Bruins have gone 23-7-3 for the year, but have scored just 13 goals through their past six road contests. Reimer's cap hit has huge profit upside built in. Player to avoid : Marc-Andre Fleury, PIT vs. NYI ($39)  - The Islanders posted a statement win Monday over the Panthers, and the depth New York brings should push the top-heavy Penguins. In half of Fleury's past 22 starts, he has allowed three goals or more, and he is just 4-4-1 with 25 goals allowed against the Islanders over the past four seasons. Fleury is priced above Holtby, and in a tougher matchup, so take the savings and run. CENTER Steven Stamkos, TB at TOR ($22)  - Look for Stamkos to stay hot following his three-point outburst Sunday. The outing broke a four-game point drought, but don't forget, Stamkos was good for 30 points including 18 goals through his previous 32 games with 101 shots on net. He is rounding into form and heading into the playoffs with momentum. This is a manageable salary, and Toronto has allowed at least three goals in 13 of its past 18 games. Player to avoid : Brayden Schenn, PHI vs. DET ($29)  - Be wary of spending up for Schenn on Tuesday. Following consecutive 40-point campaigns, he is finally in the midst of his true breakout, but at this high a price, there is no room for error. The Red Wings are a middling matchup, but Schenn needs a multi-point showing to even sniff returning value. During his current eight-goal, eight-assist run, he still has four games with a bagel or a negative return at Yahoo.  WING Jonathan Huberdeau, FLA at MON ($21)  - With two goals and five assists through four games since returning from injury, Huberdeau is continuing his breakout campaign. The Canadiens have allowed 25 goals through their past seven games, and the top line for the Panthers presents a matchup nightmare for the injury-riddled Canadiens, who have four defensemen on the injury report. Kris Versteeg, LA at DAL ($12)  - There is a plus/minus risk here given the high-octane Dallas offense. However, Versteeg is now skating on Anze Kopitar's flank, and the winger scored and added a helper against the Blackhawks on Monday. At minimum price, Versteeg is a valuable source of cap relief with limited risk given the cost of admission. Player to avoid : Phil Kessel, PIT vs. NYI ($27)  - Evgeni Malkin's injury derails Kessel's fantasy value, and currently, Kessel is off the No. 1 power-play unit and skating with Nick Bonino and Carl Hagelin. Simply put, it isn't good enough company to warrant the hefty investment, especially when Kessel is in the midst of a five-game goal drought. Don't pay up for the shot volume. DEFENSE   Matt Niskanen, WAS vs. CAR ($18)  - With John Carlson on the shelf, Niskanen continues to pad the stat sheet and fill in admirably. Niskanen has five points through his past nine games with 16 shots, 13 blocked shots and an average of 25:26 minutes, including 3:06 power-play time. Additionally, Niskanen has consistently stepped up when needed over the past three seasons for both Kris Letang and Carlson. Alex Goligoski, DAL vs. LA ($18)  - Another injury fill-in, Goligoski has stepped up nicely with three assists through his past two games and eight helpers through his past seven outings. His peripheral coverage is also attractive, as Goligoski has 12 shots and 17 blocked shots through his latest seven games. This is a positive matchup for Dallas, too, so expect a solid outing from their top players. Player to avoid : Drew Doughty, LA at DAL ($26)  - The Kings are in a tough spot on the schedule, playing their second road game in consecutive nights against Chicago and Dallas. Dating back to the beginning of February, Doughty has averaged 28:59 minutes per night, which stands as a warning against the offensively capable Stars. With 18 points, a plus-5 rating, 44 shots and 29 blocked shots through his past 21 games, Doughty's upside is clear. It just may be difficult to reach value in a tough matchup and back-to-back road setting. Get a FREE RotoWire 10-day trial (no credit card required) at RotoWire.com MORE FROM YAHOO HOCKEY : Continue to Article

March 15, 2016 11:20:am EST

Neil Parker finds a number of potentially lucrative matchups dotting Tuesday's slate, including Steven Stamkos and the Lightning in Toronto. Continue to Article

March 14, 2016 8:00:pm EST

Ryan Dadoun highlights players that don't have a lot to show for their ice time with the man advantage in this week's Power Play Report. Continue to Article

March 14, 2016 1:38:pm EST

(Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.) Just a few months ago, it seemed like Braden Holtby would inevitably win the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender. There was, of course, a conversation to be had that perhaps a guy like Ben Bishop or Petr Mrazek deserved to be in the conversation, but a lot of that has dropped off as the wins continued to pile up for Holtby. As of Monday, Holtby leads the league with 41, and should become the first goaltender to win 50 in the history of the league. He could, in fact, obliterate the record of 48 held by Martin Brodeur. Not that you should judge goaltender quality on wins and losses, of course. You can be a very good goalie with a very bad record if the team in front of you stinks; Cory Schneider lost 31 games last year despite a .925 save percentage. Meanwhile, Kari Lehtonen went 34-17-10 last season despite a save percentage of just .903. So in general that kind of thing can have absolutely no bearing on whether you yourself helped your team's cause. Of course, Holtby has been very good this year (.922) which is just about de rigueur for him. He's been among the league's best for years, and this season could, if nothing else, be seen as something of a record-breaking coming-out party. He hasn't been a passenger for this incredible Washington club, which could go down as one of the best regular-season teams in league history. However, Holtby hasn't been the actual best goaltender in the league this year. The problem that's left is figuring out who has. Travis Yost wrote last week about why Henrik Lundqvist should win the Vezina, and it's a pretty good argument. He plays a huge amount of his team's available minutes and has the best 5-on-5 save percentage in the league by a decent enough margin, and for a bad enough team, that you can logically say he's dragging the New York Rangers kicking and screaming to a pretty favorable playoff position. No goalie in the league faces a smaller average shot distance. Without him, they would basically be nowhere. Meanwhile, Bishop continues to hang around the conversation as well, with a 5-on-5 save percentage to more or less match Holtby's, but a very high overall number as well at .926, good for second among big-minutes goaltenders, and hovering right around where it's been all year. A few months ago, I wrote that Bishop deserved serious consideration for Vezina, and that hasn't changed at all. And despite the somewhat recent drop-off in Mrazek's play (which will disqualify him from contention in the eyes of many voters, no doubt), he still has a .924 save percentage in all situations behind a team that's not particularly good. His .882 save percentage in his last 10 games leaves plenty of room for doubt, obviously, but before that he was .934 in 37 appearances, so while he's dropped off, he's done so from basically Mount Olympus. Then there's Corey Crawford, of whom the hockey world seemingly still thinks very little despite the fact that he's been a .917-plus goaltender in each of the last four seasons, and five of the last six. He currently leads the league in overall save percentage, and his 5-on-5 number is top-five as well. Simply put, if the Chicago Blackhawks were relying on anyone else, it probably wouldn't be even be close to the top of the Central. By Yost's reckoning, Crawford probably has probably saved his team about 20 or 21 goals, which is worth four wins all by itself. So what we have here, then, is a group of five guys who in any other season would probably be comfortably on their way toward clearing a spot on the mantle for the Vezina. Most of them have strong arguments for them, and only two have strong arguments against. Continue to Article

March 14, 2016 9:27:am EST

The Philadelphia Flyers look to continue their playoff push as they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning Friday night. After taking points in eight of their last 10 games, the Flyers sit three points behind the Pittsburgh Penguins for a Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Lightning, meanwhile, watched as the Boston Bruins leap-frog them atop the Atlantic Divison Thursday night. Tampa does have two games in-hand on the Bruins. You can watch Flyers vs. Lightning for free via a Yahoo Sports live stream beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET. (Note: The stream is only available in the U.S.) For more information on Yahoo's NHL live streaming, visit our Tumblr page . MORE FROM YAHOO HOCKEY : Continue to Article

March 11, 2016 2:04:pm EST