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2026-27 fantasy team previews
Fantasy reference · team previews 32 clubs · 84 games · 461 ranked players

NHL fantasy team previews, 2026-27.

Thirty-two club pages. Each one is a sortable draftable board in four scoring formats, a team fantasy DNA read against the league average, a tinted depth chart, league-context strips, the crease, the power play, the offseason ledger and the schedule edge. Nothing here is projected. Every number already happened or is already on the calendar.

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Grouped by division. Each card carries the club's best draftable player by blended ESPN points per game, its league rank in off-night share, the size of its pool, the share of its power-play points held by three players, and the one category it ranks highest in league-wide. The mint and coral pills mark the ten best and the ten worst schedules for streaming.

Atlantic

Boston Bruins David Pastrnak 2.58 FPPG 15th off-nights 15 in pool 54.4% PPP top 3 4th in hits Buffalo Sabres Tage Thompson 2.30 FPPG 8th off-nights 18 in pool 55.3% PPP top 3 11th in assists Detroit Red Wings Moritz Seider 2.46 FPPG 20th off-nights 11 in pool 60.8% PPP top 3 15th in power-play points Florida Panthers Sam Reinhart 2.40 FPPG 20th off-nights 16 in pool 45.8% PPP top 3 6th in hits Montreal Canadiens Nick Suzuki 2.43 FPPG 24th off-nights 18 in pool 56.5% PPP top 3 1st in goals Ottawa Senators Jake Sanderson 2.33 FPPG 20th off-nights 14 in pool 54.3% PPP top 3 2nd in hits Tampa Bay Lightning Nikita Kucherov 3.05 FPPG 31st off-nights 14 in pool 69.2% PPP top 3 10th in assists Toronto Maple Leafs Auston Matthews 2.77 FPPG 24th off-nights 15 in pool 55.2% PPP top 3 9th in goals

Metropolitan

Carolina Hurricanes Seth Jarvis 2.17 FPPG 26th off-nights 16 in pool 50.0% PPP top 3 2nd in shots Columbus Blue Jackets Zach Werenski 2.54 FPPG 26th off-nights 17 in pool 49.1% PPP top 3 4th in shots New Jersey Devils Jack Hughes 2.50 FPPG 29th off-nights 13 in pool 47.1% PPP top 3 6th in shots New York Islanders Matthew Schaefer 2.11 FPPG 14th off-nights 15 in pool 56.3% PPP top 3 15th in blocks New York Rangers Adam Fox 2.21 FPPG 2nd off-nights 14 in pool 55.3% PPP top 3 6th in power-play points Philadelphia Flyers Travis Konecny 1.94 FPPG 8th off-nights 17 in pool 51.6% PPP top 3 3rd in blocks Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby 2.29 FPPG 18th off-nights 11 in pool 47.1% PPP top 3 7th in power-play points Washington Capitals Alex Tuch 2.25 FPPG 3rd off-nights 18 in pool 47.2% PPP top 3 1st in hits

Central

Chicago Blackhawks Connor Bedard 2.08 FPPG 6th off-nights 12 in pool 54.0% PPP top 3 23rd in power-play points Colorado Avalanche Nathan MacKinnon 3.14 FPPG 1st off-nights 15 in pool 62.4% PPP top 3 1st in shots Dallas Stars Jason Robertson 2.40 FPPG 15th off-nights 13 in pool 59.4% PPP top 3 1st in power-play points Minnesota Wild Kirill Kaprizov 2.62 FPPG 26th off-nights 14 in pool 65.3% PPP top 3 7th in blocks Nashville Predators Roman Josi 2.31 FPPG 32nd off-nights 12 in pool 67.9% PPP top 3 25th in power-play points St. Louis Blues Robert Thomas 2.05 FPPG 29th off-nights 15 in pool 44.9% PPP top 3 18th in blocks Utah Mammoth MacKenzie Weegar 2.19 FPPG 3rd off-nights 12 in pool 55.8% PPP top 3 3rd in hits Winnipeg Jets Mark Scheifele 2.33 FPPG 10th off-nights 15 in pool 69.1% PPP top 3 11th in blocks

Pacific

Anaheim Ducks Cutter Gauthier 1.92 FPPG 6th off-nights 12 in pool 56.8% PPP top 3 27th in goals Calgary Flames Jonathan Huberdeau 1.49 FPPG 10th off-nights 17 in pool 55.1% PPP top 3 8th in blocks Edmonton Oilers Connor McDavid 3.02 FPPG 10th off-nights 14 in pool 68.6% PPP top 3 2nd in power-play points Los Angeles Kings Artemi Panarin 2.11 FPPG 23rd off-nights 15 in pool 50.4% PPP top 3 5th in shots San Jose Sharks Macklin Celebrini 2.65 FPPG 3rd off-nights 14 in pool 53.1% PPP top 3 10th in goals Seattle Kraken Jared McCann 1.79 FPPG 10th off-nights 15 in pool 49.1% PPP top 3 9th in blocks Vancouver Canucks Elias Pettersson 2.06 FPPG 15th off-nights 9 in pool 59.3% PPP top 3 23rd in power-play points Vegas Golden Knights Jack Eichel 2.48 FPPG 18th off-nights 15 in pool 57.6% PPP top 3 4th in blocks
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What thirty-two club pages are actually for

A ranked list tells you who is good. It does not tell you where the good players cluster, and clustering decides drafts. These pages make one roster's shape visible at a time.

Washington Capitals put 16 skaters in the pool, the most; Vancouver Canucks put in 8, the fewest. The best blended rate in the league belongs to Nathan MacKinnon at 3.14 ESPN points per game.

Every club page opens on a sortable board in four scoring formats, then a DNA band: six category sums drawn against the league average of the same sum, with the club's rank in each. Washington Capitals lead the league in hits at 1359; Washington Capitals lead in blocks at 1162. That is the difference between a points-league roster and a category-league one, and it is a count, not a score.

Then the depth chart, tinted by blend on a fixed league-wide scale, so an empty column is the club telling you where to shop elsewhere. Then league context: how many of a club's skaters sit inside the desk's top 100, and where its power play falls on the league distribution. Tampa Bay Lightning are the most concentrated at 69.2%; St. Louis Blues the most spread at 44.9%. Neither is a forecast. Both are last season's deployment.

Schedule is the only known input in a fantasy draft. Colorado Avalanche draw the most off-nights, Nashville Predators the fewest. That does nothing to a first-round pick and a great deal to your last two bench spots. The ledger below it tracks 39 moves that changed a ranked player's club; every blend travels with the player, not the club.

Read a club page before you draft against it, not just before you draft from it.