09/28 Top Adds Under 30% Owned: Zadorov, Lundell, Kastelic

Every skater on 30% of ESPN rosters or fewer, ranked for the week of September 28 to October 4. The score adds up three things: games played, light nights (fewer than eight games on the slate, when a streamer is most likely to fill an empty slot) and projected category value, so a strong three-game week can outrank a thin four-game one.

This week's light nights are Tue, Wed, Fri, Sun. 11 of the players below get four games.

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The top 5

1. Nikita Zadorov, BOS D (17.5% owned)

Zadorov plays 3 games (Tue vs NYR, Fri @ WPG, Sat @ MIN), 2 of them on light nights. Current deployment (projected depth chart): Pair 2 with Henri Jokiharju, PK2. 2025-26: 20:53 a game over 81 games (17:51 even strength, 0:18 power play, 2:44 shorthanded), on the ice for 6% of the club's power-play time. Over the last 10 games: 13% of the power play, at 20:11 a night. The Kodo model projects 0.7 points and 3.7 shots for the week, with 7.3 hits and 3.7 blocks. S+H+B for the week: 14.6 raw, 15.3 weighted. Last 10 NHL games: 0 goals, 2 assists, 12 shots.

2. Anton Lundell, FLA C (14.1% owned)

Lundell plays 3 games (Tue @ CAR, Thu @ SJS, Sun @ ANA), 2 of them on light nights. Current deployment (projected depth chart): Line 3 with Eetu Luostarinen, Sandis Vilmanis, PP2, PK1. 2025-26: 19:09 a game over 64 games (14:10 even strength, 2:47 power play, 2:13 shorthanded), on the ice for 45% of the club's power-play time. Over the last 10 games: 43% of the power play, at 18:22 a night. The Kodo model projects 2.0 points and 6.5 shots for the week, with 3.5 hits and 1.7 blocks. S+H+B for the week: 11.7 raw, 12.0 weighted. Last 10 NHL games: 2 goals, 2 assists, 12 shots.

3. Mark Kastelic, BOS C (1.0% owned)

Kastelic plays 3 games (Tue vs NYR, Fri @ WPG, Sat @ MIN), 2 of them on light nights. Current deployment (projected depth chart): Line 4 with Tanner Jeannot, Sean Kuraly, PK1. 2025-26: 12:37 a game over 82 games (10:14 even strength, 0:16 power play, 2:07 shorthanded), on the ice for 5% of the club's power-play time. Over the last 10 games: 6% of the power play, at 11:37 a night. The Kodo model projects 0.7 points and 3.4 shots for the week, with 8.2 hits and 2.1 blocks. S+H+B for the week: 13.8 raw, 13.7 weighted. Last 10 NHL games: 3 goals, 1 assist, 12 shots.

4. William Karlsson, VGK C (3.9% owned)

Karlsson plays 3 games (Tue vs CHI, Fri vs ANA, Sun @ VAN), 3 of them on light nights. Current deployment (projected depth chart): Line 2 with Mitch Marner, Brett Howden, PP2, PK2. 2025-26: 15:15 a game over 14 games (12:35 even strength, 1:19 power play, 1:21 shorthanded), on the ice for 24% of the club's power-play time. Over the last 10 games: 24% of the power play, at 14:43 a night. The Kodo model projects 1.7 points and 6.1 shots for the week. S+H+B for the week: 9.5 raw, 10.2 weighted. Last 10 NHL games: 4 goals, 2 assists, 20 shots.

5. Jeremy Lauzon, VGK D (1.6% owned)

Lauzon plays 3 games (Tue vs CHI, Fri vs ANA, Sun @ VAN), 3 of them on light nights. Current deployment (projected depth chart): Pair 3 with Parker Wotherspoon, PK2. 2025-26: 17:11 a game over 68 games (15:10 even strength, 0:04 power play, 1:58 shorthanded), on the ice for 1% of the club's power-play time. Over the last 10 games: 2% of the power play, at 16:17 a night. The Kodo model projects 0.3 points and 3.1 shots for the week, with 11.6 hits and 4.1 blocks. S+H+B for the week: 18.8 raw, 19.1 weighted. Last 10 NHL games: 1 goal, 2 assists, 14 shots.

Held out by injury or suspension

These players would otherwise qualify, but ESPN lists them as unavailable, so they were removed before the list was cut.

• Ridly Greig (OTT): Suspended
• A.J. Greer (ANA): Out. CBS: Upper Body: Expected to be out until at least Oct 2
• Kaiden Guhle (MTL): Out
• Ben Kindel (PIT): Out. CBS: Lower Body: Expected to be out until at least Sep 26
• Troy Terry (ANA): Out. CBS: Hip: Expected to be out until at least Nov 21
• Jason Zucker (BUF): Out. CBS: Abdomen: Expected to be out until at least Oct 15

How the list is built

Weekly totals are each player's projected per-game rate times games played. The outside consensus averages the per-game rates of the published projection lists that carry games and stats; the last-season rate is the player's own 2025-26 per-game line, shown only with ten or more games behind it.

S+H+B is shots plus hits plus blocks. The raw total adds the three as if they were interchangeable; the weighted total counts each in shot units, scaled by how widely that stat varies across the league, so no single stat runs away with it. This week a hit counts 0.88 shots and a block 1.41. Blocks count for more than a shot because they vary the least, so an extra block separates players more than an extra shot does.

Power-play and penalty-kill share is measured over the games actually played: the player's seconds on the ice against the club's total in those games, so a stretch on the injured list does not read as a demotion. Lines come from each club's newest lineup, labelled by source.

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