Hello everyone and welcome to the first edition of my #GoalKeepoftheNight for 2017. I apologize I haven’t been able to get this out sooner this year but as many of you know I coach high school football and co-host The Coach and Cole Show so this time of year is quite busy for me. On top of that, we are working day and night to get Forward Mile up and running, so being crunched for time is an understatement. Speaking of Forward Mile, that is where you will find this article in the very near future, specifically with Forward Mile NHL. I encourage you to head over there and follow that account and all of our current NHL staff. Mason Gallina is our new NHL Director, Tiera Bolt is our NHL Editor, and Drew Johnson, Garrick Autler, Aaron Pfaff, and Josh Fannin make up our current writing staff. We have already compiled a very knowledgeable staff and the product that we will produce will be bar none.

Before we get to tonight’s article I want to remind you of the success of this article last season. Out of 34 NHL slates, the #GoalKeepoftheNight averaged 25.8 FDP per night. Not too shabby.

Date Goalie FDP Date Goalie FDP Date Goalie FDP 22-Feb Holtby 34.4 9-Mar Condon 35.2 23-Mar Allen 29.6 23-Feb Crawford 27 10-Mar Allen 18.4 24-Mar Fleury 22.4 26-Feb Jones 36 13-Mar Rask 20.8 26-Mar Hutchinson 30.4 27-Feb Montoya 27.2 14-Mar Bishop 16 27-Mar Allen 24.8 28-Feb Rask 25.6 15-Mar Howard 8.8 28-Mar Bernier 35.2 1-Mar Vasilevskly 22.4 16-Mar Mason -0.8 29-Mar Grubauer 25.6 2-Mar Pickard 24 17-Mar Raanta 15.2 29-Mar Hutton 25.6 3-Mar Crawford 32.8 18-Mar Allen 44.8 30-Mar Rask 41.6 6-Mar Rask 8 20-Mar Lehner 35.2 31-Mar Allen 20.8 7-Mar Bobvrosky 46.4 21-Mar Allen 24.5 3-Apr Anderson 20 8-Mar Rask 28.8 22-Mar Talbot -4.6 4-Apr Jones 34.4 FDP AVG: 25.8 5-Apr Holtby 39.2

Tonight, we have a 6-game slate. Only one (Arizona @ Toronto) of the six games has a total of six the other games are all at 5.5. We don’t have any backup goaltenders starting tonight as all six are their club’s primary starter.

I would advise against playing Brayden Holtby ($9,100 FD), tonight’s most expensive goaltender against the Calgary Flames who have scored 4.0 goals per game in their last four games, including a seven-goal performance against the first place St. Louis Blues seven days ago. The Flames are getting back Matthew Tkachuk from his one-game suspension and quite frankly the Capitals do not have a great blue line and they have given up the 7th most goals (66) in the NHL this season.

The goalie I want tonight is Frederik Andersen ($8,400 FD) of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Leafs are the most heavily favored team tonight. They have won six games in a row and are playing a Coyotes team that has only won four games all season and they have traveled across the continent to play in this one.

Andersen has won five games in a row and is coming off of back-to-back shutouts and huge nights on FanDuel (53.6FDP, 46.4 FDP). Andersen is locked in and we have seen in the past where he goes on streaks where he is untouchable. He is on one of those streaks and it won’t stop now against dreadful Arizona. Beyond how great Andersen has been the Leafs are almost guaranteed to win this game, so in my opinion, it is the safest play on the board.

10 of Andersen’s 18 starts this season have been quality starts, he leads the NHL in saves (550) and shutouts (3), he is second in wins (12) and has faced the most shots (602) to top it all off. So not only are you locking in a safe play tonight, you are locking a goaltender who faces a lot of shots that plays for an offensively supercharged team that will most likely light the lamp on numerous occasions tonight.

Frederick Andersen is tonight’s #GoalKeepoftheNight

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