# NHL Fantasy Team Previews 2026-27

The index at /fantasy/teams/ links thirty-two club-by-club fantasy hockey previews for the 2026-27 season, one page per NHL team. Every club page carries the same blocks in the same order, so two rosters can be compared without re-learning a layout: the draftable board, team fantasy DNA, the depth chart, league context, the crease, the power play, the offseason ledger, the schedule, and the prospects behind it.

The draftable board is a sortable table of every player on that club who clears the desk's pool line, typically eight to fifteen names, ranked by a blended ESPN points-per-game figure that weights 2025-26 at 0.6, 2024-25 at 0.3 and 2023-24 at 0.1. Each row prints desk rank, position, age, the 2025-26 and 2024-25 per-game figures, the blend, a three-season trend spark, the change in per-game scoring between the two halves of last season, the goals-assists-points line and games played, and the 2025-26 totals for power-play points, shots, hits and blocks. Where the player appears in the 250-player game-level consistency build the row also carries the share of his games with at least one point. The last two columns are the four-board consensus average rank and a value chip that is consensus rank minus the desk's own rank. A segmented control in the hero re-ranks and re-prices the whole board into Yahoo, Fantrax or roto z-score shape, and position pills filter it to forwards or defencemen.

The team fantasy DNA band sums six categories across the club's pool-ranked skaters for 2025-26 and draws each against the league average of the same sum, with the club's rank of 32 printed beside it. A position-mix strip shows the share of the club's blended points per game coming from forwards, defencemen and goaltenders. The depth chart sorts the same skaters into centre, left wing, right wing and defence columns plus a crease row, ordered by blend and tinted by it on a fixed league-wide scale. League context prints how many of the club's skaters sit inside the desk top 100, against all 32 clubs, and places the club's power-play concentration on the league distribution between its minimum, median and maximum. The crease block splits last season's starts between the club's pool-ranked goaltenders and prints wins, shutouts, goals-against average and save percentage for each.

The power-play block prints the share of a club's 2025-26 power-play points held by its top three skaters. It is the projection-free proxy for first-unit time. Tampa Bay Lightning are the most concentrated in the league at 69.2%; St. Louis Blues are the most spread at 44.9%.

The offseason ledger shows arrivals and departures for the club, filtered from 39 tracked 2026 moves that changed a ranked fantasy player's team. The schedule strip prints off-night count and share with league rank, back-to-backs with league rank, week-one games, longest homestand, longest road trip and the busiest seven-day stretch. Colorado Avalanche draw the most off-nights in the league and Nashville Predators the fewest. The prospect block lists up to five org prospects with the league they are playing in now and their NHL games so far.

Each club page closes with a few hundred words of written analysis built from that club's own computed figures. Washington Capitals put the most skaters into the pool at 16; Vancouver Canucks the fewest at 8. The single best blended rate in the league belongs to Nathan MacKinnon at 3.14 ESPN points per game.

These pages carry no projection. Every fantasy rate is a weighted blend of completed seasons and every schedule figure is already fixed by the published 2026-27 calendar.

## The 32 club pages

### Atlantic

- Boston Bruins — /fantasy/teams/boston-bruins/ — David Pastrnak (2.58 FPPG); 15th in off-night share; 15 in the pool.
- Buffalo Sabres — /fantasy/teams/buffalo-sabres/ — Tage Thompson (2.30 FPPG); 8th in off-night share; 18 in the pool.
- Detroit Red Wings — /fantasy/teams/detroit-red-wings/ — Moritz Seider (2.46 FPPG); 20th in off-night share; 11 in the pool.
- Florida Panthers — /fantasy/teams/florida-panthers/ — Sam Reinhart (2.40 FPPG); 20th in off-night share; 16 in the pool.
- Montreal Canadiens — /fantasy/teams/montreal-canadiens/ — Nick Suzuki (2.43 FPPG); 24th in off-night share; 18 in the pool.
- Ottawa Senators — /fantasy/teams/ottawa-senators/ — Jake Sanderson (2.33 FPPG); 20th in off-night share; 14 in the pool.
- Tampa Bay Lightning — /fantasy/teams/tampa-bay-lightning/ — Nikita Kucherov (3.05 FPPG); 31st in off-night share; 14 in the pool.
- Toronto Maple Leafs — /fantasy/teams/toronto-maple-leafs/ — Auston Matthews (2.77 FPPG); 24th in off-night share; 15 in the pool.

### Metropolitan

- Carolina Hurricanes — /fantasy/teams/carolina-hurricanes/ — Seth Jarvis (2.17 FPPG); 26th in off-night share; 16 in the pool.
- Columbus Blue Jackets — /fantasy/teams/columbus-blue-jackets/ — Zach Werenski (2.54 FPPG); 26th in off-night share; 17 in the pool.
- New Jersey Devils — /fantasy/teams/new-jersey-devils/ — Jack Hughes (2.50 FPPG); 29th in off-night share; 13 in the pool.
- New York Islanders — /fantasy/teams/new-york-islanders/ — Matthew Schaefer (2.11 FPPG); 14th in off-night share; 15 in the pool.
- New York Rangers — /fantasy/teams/new-york-rangers/ — Adam Fox (2.21 FPPG); 2nd in off-night share; 14 in the pool.
- Philadelphia Flyers — /fantasy/teams/philadelphia-flyers/ — Travis Konecny (1.94 FPPG); 8th in off-night share; 17 in the pool.
- Pittsburgh Penguins — /fantasy/teams/pittsburgh-penguins/ — Sidney Crosby (2.29 FPPG); 18th in off-night share; 11 in the pool.
- Washington Capitals — /fantasy/teams/washington-capitals/ — Alex Tuch (2.25 FPPG); 3rd in off-night share; 18 in the pool.

### Central

- Chicago Blackhawks — /fantasy/teams/chicago-blackhawks/ — Connor Bedard (2.08 FPPG); 6th in off-night share; 12 in the pool.
- Colorado Avalanche — /fantasy/teams/colorado-avalanche/ — Nathan MacKinnon (3.14 FPPG); 1st in off-night share; 15 in the pool.
- Dallas Stars — /fantasy/teams/dallas-stars/ — Jason Robertson (2.40 FPPG); 15th in off-night share; 13 in the pool.
- Minnesota Wild — /fantasy/teams/minnesota-wild/ — Kirill Kaprizov (2.62 FPPG); 26th in off-night share; 14 in the pool.
- Nashville Predators — /fantasy/teams/nashville-predators/ — Roman Josi (2.31 FPPG); 32nd in off-night share; 12 in the pool.
- St. Louis Blues — /fantasy/teams/st-louis-blues/ — Robert Thomas (2.05 FPPG); 29th in off-night share; 15 in the pool.
- Utah Mammoth — /fantasy/teams/utah-mammoth/ — MacKenzie Weegar (2.19 FPPG); 3rd in off-night share; 12 in the pool.
- Winnipeg Jets — /fantasy/teams/winnipeg-jets/ — Mark Scheifele (2.33 FPPG); 10th in off-night share; 15 in the pool.

### Pacific

- Anaheim Ducks — /fantasy/teams/anaheim-ducks/ — Cutter Gauthier (1.92 FPPG); 6th in off-night share; 12 in the pool.
- Calgary Flames — /fantasy/teams/calgary-flames/ — Jonathan Huberdeau (1.49 FPPG); 10th in off-night share; 17 in the pool.
- Edmonton Oilers — /fantasy/teams/edmonton-oilers/ — Connor McDavid (3.02 FPPG); 10th in off-night share; 14 in the pool.
- Los Angeles Kings — /fantasy/teams/los-angeles-kings/ — Artemi Panarin (2.11 FPPG); 23rd in off-night share; 15 in the pool.
- San Jose Sharks — /fantasy/teams/san-jose-sharks/ — Macklin Celebrini (2.65 FPPG); 3rd in off-night share; 14 in the pool.
- Seattle Kraken — /fantasy/teams/seattle-kraken/ — Jared McCann (1.79 FPPG); 10th in off-night share; 15 in the pool.
- Vancouver Canucks — /fantasy/teams/vancouver-canucks/ — Elias Pettersson (2.06 FPPG); 15th in off-night share; 9 in the pool.
- Vegas Golden Knights — /fantasy/teams/vegas-golden-knights/ — Jack Eichel (2.48 FPPG); 18th in off-night share; 15 in the pool.

Source: NHL public web API per-game logs 2023-24 through 2025-26; NHL club-schedule-season 20262027; preseason boards from ESPN, NHL.com, Daily Faceoff and CBS Sports. Caveats from the builder are printed on every page.

Related: /fantasy/ for the ranked board, /fantasy/schedule/, /fantasy/rookies/, /fantasy/busts/, /fantasy/mock-draft/.