2026-27 Fantasy Guide

Everything to walk into your draft prepared and finish in the money — value tiers and bargains for draft day, the sleepers and fades to target, and the schedule context that wins titles. Every number is model-built and traces to real data.

700+ players projectedYour #1 Brady TkachukBiggest riser Beckett Sennecke84-game season · updated daily
Team previews
Every club, written the same way: where the model has them finishing, the projected lines and pairs with each man's points beside him, both special-teams units, the schedule shape that decides weekly leagues, and the camp battles still open. The lineup is a sandbox — move a player up a line or onto PP1 and every projection on the page moves with him, so you can price a promotion before the coach makes it.
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All 32 previews →Projected standings →Preseason lines →
Articles
Written off the same projections as everything else here, and every name, number and stat line in them traces to a row in the database rather than a turn of phrase.
Ducks on Top Again: What the 2026-27 Schedule Means for Your Fantasy LineupEvery club plays the same number of games, but the schedule is how you squeeze in an extra skater start several times a week. 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.Read →
Draft centre
Three steps, in order. Read the league, settle on the numbers you trust, then take them to the draft — on the portal if you want your picks synced live, on the workbook if you want a board that needs no connection at all. Draft night is exactly when a site you depend on is least likely to be the thing you want to depend on.
1Read the league
Where the tiers break, who the room will overpay for, and what your own schedule does to a roster.
Your Draft PlanRound-by-round targets for your league — what to take, and when.Open →Draft TiersThe top skaters grouped into tiers, so you know when a cliff is coming.Open →Sleepers & FadesWho to reach for, and who the room will overpay for.Open →Value vs ADPWhere the model disagrees with the room — the players you can wait on, and the ones you cannot.Open →
2Settle your numbers
Every draft surface below reads whichever of these you pick. Change nothing and you draft off the model.
Advanced Projection SandboxArrange a club — lines, pairs, power play, kill — and the projection follows the minutes. The tool for when the disagreement is about deployment.Open →Custom Point ProjectionsThree columns. Type over goals, assists or points for anyone; everything you do not touch keeps tracking the model.Open →Projections & importEvery skater and goalie, 300 deep — or upload a projection file of your own and draft off that instead.Open →
3Draft
The portal syncs your picks from Yahoo or ESPN as they happen. The workbook needs no connection at all.
Draft PortalPrep, mock and live. Rehearse against bots that reach and slide like a real room, then run the night with your picks synced.Open →Draft WorkbookThe whole night on one sheet: pick entry, the clock, 300 available, the ledger, scarcity and your roster — offline.Open →Classic BoardThe single-page board, with every pick tradeable and a printable blank.Open →Replacement ValueWhat a player is worth above the man you could have had for free at his position.Open →
Your league pick a format and the guide re-ranks for it
H2H / Roto PointsH2H CategoriesBanger LeaguePoints-Only⚙ Norfolk in Chance⚙ Norfolk in Chance

Banger League — Hits, blocks, PIM and shots carry the day — grinders and shot-blocking D spike. Scoring: peripheral-heavy: HIT/BLK 2x, PIM 1.5x, SOG 1.2x — scoring still counts

The Board top 12 for Banger LeagueAll draft tiers →
1Brady TkachukFLA · L · 76 GPfield #21 · +20222HIT27BLK103PIM297SOG33G43A27PPP2Moritz SeiderDET · D · 82 GPfield #40 · +38158HIT180BLK52PIM174SOG10G48A27PPP3Tom WilsonWSH · R · 75 GPfield #83 · +80194HIT58BLK112PIM151SOG28G31A14PPP4MacKenzie WeegarUTA · D · 80 GPfield #123 · +119179HIT173BLK68PIM155SOG7G27A10PPP5Nikita ZadorovBOS · D · 80 GPfield #285 · +280195HIT98BLK139PIM99SOG4G16A0PPP6Darnell NurseSJS · D · 80 GPfield #171 · +165142HIT155BLK90PIM160SOG6G19A1PPP7Will CuylleNYR · L · 80 GPfield #189 · +182289HIT57BLK56PIM152SOG20G20A7PPP8Jeremy LauzonVGK · D · 71 GPfield #291 · +283274HIT98BLK88PIM73SOG2G6A0PPP9Kiefer SherwoodSJS · L · 74 GPfield #180 · +171355HIT30BLK45PIM150SOG18G15A8PPP10Rasmus DahlinBUF · D · 79 GPfield #21 · +1190HIT95BLK72PIM206SOG19G58A24PPP11Mark KastelicBOS · C · 77 GPfield #290 · +278211HIT55BLK121PIM88SOG9G8A1PPP12Nathan MacKinnonCOL · C · 79 GPfield #1 · -1156HIT43BLK39PIM336SOG45G82A35PPP

Projected 2026-27 totals in the categories Banger League counts. The bar shows overall value for that format. Field # is where the room ranks him — a big + means he goes later than he should in your format, so you can wait on him.

Draft-day edges who to chase and who to let goFull list →
📈 Sleepers · young risers
Beckett SenneckeANA · R · 20HIT 1.18→1.2BLK 0.29→0.34PIM 0.76→0.7Matthew SchaeferNYI · D · 19HIT 0.49→0.52BLK 1.35→1.37PIM 0.46→0.49Jimmy SnuggerudSTL · R · 22HIT 1.01→1.01BLK 0.56→0.55PIM 0.26→0.3Connor BedardCHI · C · 21HIT 0.45→0.53BLK 0.39→0.42PIM 0.72→0.72Macklin CelebriniSJS · C · 20HIT 0.65→0.64BLK 0.65→0.66PIM 0.54→0.51
📉 Fades · let someone else pay
Scott SabourinTBL · R · 34HIT 2.42→2.31BLK 0.42→0.44PIM 3.42→2.58Darren RaddyshTOR · D · 30HIT 0.92→0.82BLK 0.95→0.99PIM 0.99→0.69Connor CliftonBOS · D · 31HIT 3.6→3.15BLK 1.68→1.59PIM 1.06→0.89Sean WalkerCAR · D · 31HIT 1.74→1.52BLK 1.54→1.41PIM 0.73→0.66Vincent DesharnaisWSH · D · 30HIT 1.94→1.81BLK 1.57→1.53PIM 1.28→1.04
Draft-season updates

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Explore the guide everything, chapter by chapter
Rankings & Tiers
Your Draft PlanRound-by-round targets for your league — the capstone.Open →Draft TiersTop ~120 skaters grouped into value tiers.Open →Full ProjectionsEvery player's full-category forecast.Open →By PositionWhere the real positional drop-offs are.Open →Custom RankingsRe-rank for your league's exact categories.Open →
Value & Strategy
Trade Value ChartOne number per player, plus a durability flag.Open →Value vs ADPWhere our model disagrees with the field.Open →Draft KitThe one-page cheat sheet.Open →
Targets to Know
Sleepers & FadesYoung risers to draft, vets to avoid.Open →Peripheral BreakoutsHits/blocks/shots category swingers.Open →Impact RookiesFirst-years who matter on draft day.Open →Role ChangesWho's moving up (or down) a line.Open →
Season Context
Schedule StrengthOff-nights and the playoff weeks that win titles.Open →Team PreviewsAll 32 teams — finish, lines, special teams.Open →Projected StandingsWhere the model has every team finishing.Open →Preseason LinesProjected opening-night combinations.Open →
Fantasy hockey draft FAQ
When is the 2026-27 fantasy hockey draft season?

NHL opening night is September 29, 2026, so most fantasy drafts run from roughly September 8 through 28. Rankings, tiers and sleepers on this page are updated daily through that window.

Can I get fantasy hockey rankings for my own league's scoring?

Yes. Link your Yahoo, ESPN or Fantrax league and the entire guide — tiers, values, sleepers and the round-by-round plan — re-scores for your league's exact categories and point values, not a generic default.

How are these projections built?

Four seasons of player rates, recency-weighted and regressed to a position baseline by sample size, age-adjusted, with goals blended toward expected goals. The method is backtested against held-out seasons.

What's the difference between a points league and a categories league here?

Points leagues rank by projected fantasy points using your scoring weights; categories leagues rank by your edge in each counted stat as summed z-scores. The guide switches between them, and a banger-league board looks very different from a points board.