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Team previews, draft analysis and longer reads that hold their value for weeks.

Sep 20How the draft optimiser thinksThe technical notes on the draft optimiser: why it scores finished rosters instead of players, how survival odds turn scarcity into arithmetic, why a category is won rather than summed, and what every measurement said, including the ones that went against it.

Sep 20The power-play seats that changed hands: 22 skaters promoted and 15 clubs with a seat to fill22 skaters who were not on a top power-play unit in 2025-26 are on one in the 2026-27 charts, and 15 clubs lost a first-unit player outright. Philip Broberg, Shea Theodore, Mason Lohrei have the furthest to travel. Every seat compared against the ice time that actually earned it.

Sep 11The eleven seats: where your players' games actually goA 2C/2LW/2RW/4D/1UTIL roster wastes 63 player-games a season on a 3-man bench and 143 on a 5-man one. Where they go, and the two draft-day levers that get them back - measured at every bench depth.

Sep 8The biggest late-season movers in shots, hits and blocksWhich skaters surged and faded in the banger categories over the closing stretch of last season, with the ice time, power-play and penalty-kill changes behind each move.

Sep 6Reading the crease: where the 2026-27 starts are still in doubtThe contested tandems, with a slider that moves the share of starts and both goalies' seasons with it.

Sep 5The week in news, 09/05: Jonathan Huberdeau, Tyler Seguin, Semyon Varlamov8 players made news in the last 7 days. What each one is projected for, beside the report that puts it in question.

Sep 3The PP1 Swing: Every First-Unit Seat Still Up For Grabs48 contested first power-play seats across 27 clubs, priced in goals, assists, points and power-play points.

Sep 1How to use the Advanced SandboxA guide to the projection Sandbox: move a player's minutes and watch his season move, then the step-by-step for editing lines and units and getting your own numbers into the draft portal and the workbook.

Sep 1How to use the draft portalA step-by-step guide to the draft portal, opening with the same players valued three ways so you can watch the board re-rank for a points league, a category league and a banger league before setting up your own.

Sep 1Rate Fallers: the ten biggest projected points-per-game declines for 2026-27The ten largest projected declines in points per game for 2026-27, ranked on rate so availability drops out of the question, with the expected-goal case behind Raddysh, Mantha and Geekie and a card that switches between what each did and what we project.

Sep 1Early Injury Outlook: what our projections already assumeEleven players carry an injury into camp worth a draft decision: what the reported timelines say, what our projections already assume in games, and a scenario card that prices a late return against the club's real schedule.

Aug 27Rate Risers: the twenty biggest projected points-per-game gains for 2026-27The twenty most improved players per game rather than per season, so a healthy year cannot buy a place on the list, with the projected line, power-play unit, linemates, quarter-by-quarter production and departures behind each one.

Aug 25Camp Battles: What are the point impacts of Gavin Mckenna getting a shot at the top PP unit? 68 contested top-unit and first-line jobs across 32 clubs, ranked by the points the job itself is worth.

Aug 24Projecting Rookies: Mckenna, Kantserov lead the rookie classThe thirty rookies our model likes most for 2026-27, the categories they supply, the formula worked through by hand, and an honest account of where the list is too generous.

Aug 21Blocks, Hits and Draws: Who Actually Supplies Them in 2026-27Goals and assists show up on every ranking list. These are the players who win everything else: blocks, hits, faceoffs, shots. What they're projected for, and which of them you can wait five rounds to take.

Aug 20Ducks on Top Again: What the 2026-27 Schedule Means for Your Fantasy LineupEvery club plays the same number of games and you can make the difference in your fantasy league by stacking lineups on off days and streaming against tired squads. We are going through every schedule implication in the league: who plays the most off nights, who is buried in back to backs, whose four game weeks land where they actually help, and which clubs own the three weeks that decide a head to head title. None of it should decide a pick on its own, and all of it is worth keeping in the back of your mind on draft day.

About this analysis

Kodo publishes on a weekly calendar: Top Adds on Friday, goalie adds and FAB bids on Sunday, trend pieces midweek, and keeper and dynasty rankings monthly. Each piece has interactive charts you can sort and filter, and each leads with its own numbers.

Every figure traces to the underlying data rather than to opinion: projections, shift charts, box scores and ownership. Where a model makes a call, the article says how it works so you can disagree with a specific step.