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Get today's top DraftKings daily fantasy hockey lineup picks for December 2, 2025. Doug's expert NHL DFS goalies picks, value plays, stacks, and power play picks.
After a wonky week of NHL scheduling due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we are back on track with a strong Tuesday slate of games. The premier game on tonight’s 10-game card features the Minnesota Wild and Kirill Kaprizov heading to Edmonton to face the Edmonton Oilers and Connor McDavid. Neither defense is playing well right now, which means we could see fireworks in Western Canada tonight!
DraftKings has come out strong with its tournament slate. There are five that have an entry fee of $20 or less, with a first prize of $ 1,000 or more. Both the $20-entry Overload and the $5-entry Poke Check have a top prize of $10000. There is a lot of money to be made on tonight’s slate. Let’s go out and get what’s ours!
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NHL DFS Analysis And Picks For 12/2/25
Colorado Avalanche (COL1 - Artturi Lehkonen, Nathan MacKinnon, Martin Necas; $23600 DK)
Defensive Addition: Cale Makar ($8500 DK)
Do you want a challenge tonight? Try building a lineup with a $32300 four-man Colorado stack. It is not easy, and you’ll have to use many low-cost one-offs to pull it off, but it could very well be worth it. No line in the NHL can match the upside of what Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar can produce.
Makar is averaging a full two fantasy points more than the next best defender on the slate, and his ceiling is unmatched. He has as many games of 20 or more DraftKings points (four) as he does games of fewer than 9 points (four).
Meanwhile, MacKinnon continues to be the best player for fantasy, recording no goals or assists in just four of 25 games this season. For comparison's sake, he has 13 games with multiple goals and assists and has scored more than 20 DraftKings points in eight of his past 11 games. MacKinnon did have an illness on Monday, so his availability is in question, but if he plays, he’s well worth his $10,000 price tag.
This is even more true given Colorado’s matchup tonight against the Canucks. Vancouver may be the worst road team in the league, allowing 14.93 high-danger chances per 60 minutes and with an xGA/60 (expected goals allowed per 60 minutes) of 3.13. Their defensive pairing of Quinn Hughes and Filip Hronek has allowed 15.9 high-danger chances and 47.69 scoring chances per 60 minutes on the road.
Goalie Kevin Lankinen has bailed the team out repeatedly, saving 92.7% of the high-danger shots he’s faced and allowing over a whole goal fewer than expected. That kind of overachievement isn’t sustainable, and it’s bound to come crashing down against a team like Colorado.
Vegas Golden Knights (VGK1 - Jack Eichel, Ivan Barbashev, Braeden Bowman; $16700 DK)
Defensive Addition: Shea Theodore ($5000 DK)
Chicago goalie Spencer Knight has been one of the biggest surprises of the NHL season, allowing just 1.99 goals per game on the road. He’s saved a whopping 91% of the high-danger shots he’s faced, which is incredible, but he’s playing well over his head, and regression is sure to find him.
Knight has allowed 1.36 fewer goals than expected this year on the road, a number that’s unsustainable against good offenses. One of the biggest detriments facing Knight is the defense in front of him. The pairing of Louis Crevier and Alex Vlasic has been awful, allowing 3.61 expected goals and 17.43 high-danger chances per game on the road over their past 10 games.
Vegas is on the other side of regression, having scored 0.65 fewer even-strength goals per 60 minutes than expected at home over the past 10 games. The Knights have been aggressive, averaging 12.31 high-danger chances per 60 minutes, which should put pressure on the Chicago defense. While Jack Eichel is expensive at $9300, the rest of the Vegas top line is affordable, which would allow you to spend up a little bit on your second stack or on defense.
Minnesota Wild (MIN1 - Kirill Kaprizov, Mats Zuccarello, Ryan Hartman; $17700 DK)
Defensive Addition: Zeev Buium ($3600)
The game between the Wild and Oilers could produce fireworks, as both offenses are potent and neither defense is playing particularly well. The Wild get the call as the better tournament play because their top line is playing better than Edmonton’s, which hasn’t jelled yet since the return of Zach Hyman.
Kirill Kaprizov has at least one goal or assist in seven straight games, all of which have seen him score at least 11.5 DraftKings points. He’s one of the most consistent forwards in the league, and his upside is well over 30 fantasy points. Mats Zuccarello has also been playing well, producing 10 goals and assists in the 11 games he’s played this season.
The biggest reason to like the Wild today is how poorly the Edmonton defense has been at home over their prior 10 games. They’ve allowed 4.22 even-strength goals per 60 minutes, which is easily the worst number of any team on the slate.
Goalie Stuart Skinner has allowed three or more goals in 14 of 19 starts this year, and has a 4.02 goals against average in seven home starts. He’s saved a slate-low 68% of the high-danger shots he’s faced at home, while Kaprizov is one of the best snipers in the league.
Kirill Kaprizov - Minnesota Wild (17) pic.twitter.com/i6LPJdPPpH
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NHL DFS Value Stack of the Night
Boston Bruins (BOS2 - Pavel Zacha, Casey Mittelstadt, Viktor Arvidsson; $11300 DK)
The Detroit Red Wings have not been a good defensive team at home, allowing 3.27 even-strength goals and 12.94 high-danger chances per 60 minutes over their past 10 games. Goalie Cam Talbot has saved just 79% of the high-danger shots he’s faced at home, putting him in danger of getting rolled if Boston can get aggressive in front of the net. Talbot has allowed three or more goals in three of his past four games, and in half of his home starts on the season.
Viktor Arvidsson should return to the lineup for Boston in this game, and before his injury, he had scored nine or more DraftKings points in five of seven games. Casey Mittelstadt isn’t a high-volume shooter, but he does have a goal or assist in four of his past five games; three of which he scored nine or more fantasy points. He’s also priced at just $2700, which makes him a prime one-off player you can use if you’re using a four-man Avalanche stack.
NHL DFS Goalie to Target
Jeremy Swayman (BOS - $7100 DK)
Jeremy Swayman has entered the conversation of “hottest goalie in the NHL.” He hasn’t allowed more than three goals in any game since before November, a span of 10 starts. He’s had only two games of worse than 15.6 DraftKings points during this span, giving him one of the highest floors on the slate.
Swayman has saved at least 90% of the shots he’s faced in each of those starts and has at least 28 saves in eight games. That kind of volume is great for accumulating fantasy points, especially if 90% or more of them are getting saved. The Red Wings take over 30 shots per game, so the volume should be for him once again tonight. The best part about all of this is that, for some odd reason,
Swayman is one of the three cheapest starting goalies on the slate. How the algorithm came to a price of just $7100 is beyond me, but I’m surely taking advantage of it and will be overweight to the field on Swayman in tournaments. He’s an easy lock as my cash game goalie.
Jeremy Swayman this year:
‣SV%: .915
‣GAA: 2.62
‣19.4 GSAE* (1st in NHL by 3 goals)
‣1.131 GSAE* (2nd in NHL)
‣11 Wins (3rd in NHL)
‣1.13 GAA above expected (2nd in NHL)
‣3.23 WAR (FIRST IN NHL BY 0.53)STATEMENT YEAR. #NHLBruins pic.twitter.com/QKEEafo0kB
— Lassila35🇫🇮 (@TemLassila) December 1, 2025
Others in consideration: Logan Thompson (WSH), Igor Shesterkin (NYR)
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