What It Means:

Budaj has made 43 saves in his past two contests, recording back-to-back shutouts. He's 7-3-0 this season and has career-highs with a .919 save percentage and 1.86 goals-against average. Tonight's opponent is scoring 3.23 goals per game, fourth-best in the league this season.

According to numberFire's models, any other goalie would be a better option than Budaj on FanDuel Thursday night. We give him only a 28.0 percent chance of earning the win while expecting 2.89 goals allowed on 27.20 shot attempts.