Chicago Blackhawks fantasy preview 2026-27.
11 skaters and 1 goaltender clear the pool line. Connor Bedard leads at 2.08 blended ESPN points per game. The club ranks 23rd in the league in power-play points and 31st in shots. Every figure below is a completed season or a published calendar.
Every Chicago name in the 2026-27 pool
Sorted by desk rank in the format selected above. Any header re-sorts. Counting columns are 2025-26 season totals. The value chip is consensus rank minus desk rank: mint means the desk is higher on him than the four published boards, coral means the room makes you pay.
| Pos | ||||||||||||||||
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| 64of 400 | Connor Bedard | C | 21 | 2.24 | 1.80 | 2.08 | -1.14 | 30-45-75 in 69 | 21 | 226 | 31 | 27 | 65% | 68 | +4 | |
| 136of 400 | Patrick KaneNEW · DET | RW | 37 | 1.69 | 1.74 | 1.73 | +0.01 | 16-41-57 in 67 | 19 | 169 | 21 | 24 | 58% | 182 | +46 | |
| 182of 400 | Tyler Bertuzzi | LW | 31 | 1.70 | 1.37 | 1.58 | -0.68 | 32-26-58 in 79 | 21 | 164 | 55 | 24 | 52% | 191 | +9 | |
| 212of 400 | Ian ColeNEW · UTA | D | 37 | 1.40 | 1.72 | 1.50 | -0.06 | 3-20-23 in 82 | 0 | 62 | 73 | 151 | 24% | — | n/r | |
| 231of 400 | Bowen ByramNEW · BUF | D | 25 | 1.45 | 1.48 | 1.47 | -0.26 | 11-31-42 in 82 | 7 | 109 | 50 | 93 | 42% | 142 | -89 | |
| 236of 400 | Frank Nazar | C | 22 | 1.53 | 1.31 | 1.46 | -0.10 | 15-26-41 in 66 | 12 | 138 | 37 | 43 | 42% | 199 | -37 | |
| 288of 400 | Alex Vlasic | D | 25 | 1.16 | 1.64 | 1.33 | +0.03 | 2-19-21 in 81 | 0 | 86 | 29 | 119 | — | — | n/r | |
| 309of 400 | Teuvo Teravainen | C | 32 | 1.21 | 1.38 | 1.29 | -0.27 | 14-21-35 in 75 | 19 | 89 | 21 | 43 | — | — | n/r | |
| 317of 400 | Artyom Levshunov | D | 20 | 1.28 | 1.17 | 1.28 | -0.30 | 2-22-24 in 68 | 11 | 84 | 98 | 75 | — | 236 | -81 | |
| 371of 400 | Ryan Donato | C | 30 | 0.93 | 1.72 | 1.18 | -0.34 | 15-15-30 in 82 | 2 | 122 | 78 | 21 | — | 242 | -129 | |
| 382of 400 | Sam Rinzel | D | 22 | 1.17 | 1.32 | 1.17 | +0.21 | 4-10-14 in 54 | 1 | 83 | 49 | 63 | — | 223 | -159 |
- 64 Connor Bedard C · age 21 · mkt 68 2.08blend 2.2425-26 1.8024-25 -1.14H2−H1 21PPP 226SOG 31HIT 27BLK 65%PG% 30-45-75 in 69+4
- 136 Patrick Kane RW · age 37 · mkt 182 1.73blend 1.6925-26 1.7424-25 +0.01H2−H1 19PPP 169SOG 21HIT 24BLK 58%PG% 16-41-57 in 67+46
- 182 Tyler Bertuzzi LW · age 31 · mkt 191 1.58blend 1.7025-26 1.3724-25 -0.68H2−H1 21PPP 164SOG 55HIT 24BLK 52%PG% 32-26-58 in 79+9
- 212 Ian Cole D · age 37 · mkt n/r 1.50blend 1.4025-26 1.7224-25 -0.06H2−H1 0PPP 62SOG 73HIT 151BLK 24%PG% 3-20-23 in 82n/r
- 231 Bowen Byram D · age 25 · mkt 142 1.47blend 1.4525-26 1.4824-25 -0.26H2−H1 7PPP 109SOG 50HIT 93BLK 42%PG% 11-31-42 in 82-89
- 236 Frank Nazar C · age 22 · mkt 199 1.46blend 1.5325-26 1.3124-25 -0.10H2−H1 12PPP 138SOG 37HIT 43BLK 42%PG% 15-26-41 in 66-37
- 288 Alex Vlasic D · age 25 · mkt n/r 1.33blend 1.1625-26 1.6424-25 +0.03H2−H1 0PPP 86SOG 29HIT 119BLK —PG% 2-19-21 in 81n/r
- 309 Teuvo Teravainen C · age 32 · mkt n/r 1.29blend 1.2125-26 1.3824-25 -0.27H2−H1 19PPP 89SOG 21HIT 43BLK —PG% 14-21-35 in 75n/r
- 317 Artyom Levshunov D · age 20 · mkt 236 1.28blend 1.2825-26 1.1724-25 -0.30H2−H1 11PPP 84SOG 98HIT 75BLK —PG% 2-22-24 in 68-81
- 371 Ryan Donato C · age 30 · mkt 242 1.18blend 0.9325-26 1.7224-25 -0.34H2−H1 2PPP 122SOG 78HIT 21BLK —PG% 15-15-30 in 82-129
- 382 Sam Rinzel D · age 22 · mkt 223 1.17blend 1.1725-26 1.3224-25 +0.21H2−H1 1PPP 83SOG 49HIT 63BLK —PG% 4-10-14 in 54-159
Chicago are 23rd in power-play points
Six categories, summed across every Chicago skater in the pool for 2025-26, each drawn against the league average of the same sum. The tick on every track is that average. Thin in both halves of a category league. Draft the top of this board and leave.
- G 144 lg avg 194 30th
- A 276 lg avg 329 27th
- PPP 113 lg avg 130 23rd
- SOG 1332 lg avg 1644 31st
- HIT 542 lg avg 909 28th
- BLK 683 lg avg 789 26th
Where the blended points sit
Share of the club's total blended points per game contributed by forwards, defencemen and goaltenders in the pool. A club heavy in the D band is a club whose value survives a league that starts four defencemen.
Deep at defence, barren at left wing
Ordered by blend inside each column, tinted by the same number on a fixed league-wide scale. Darker is better, and an empty column is the club telling you where you will have to shop elsewhere. Every tile links to the player.
Crease 1
Chicago against the other 31
Draftable stock
1 Chicago skaters inside the desk's top 100 — 28th of 32
Every club, sorted. DAL lead with 5; the thinnest club has 0. A tall bar is a roster you will keep bumping into in the first eight rounds.
Power-play concentration
54.0% held by the top three — 21st-most concentrated
Below the league median of 55.2%. Power-play value here is not locked behind three players.
Knight is a workhorse
Last season's starts, split between the goaltenders the pool ranks here. The calendar puts 12 back-to-backs in front of them, and those are the nights the starter does not get.
The tick is the league median busiest-goaltender share, 64.7% across the 32 clubs with a pool-ranked crease. Knight sits at 100.0%.
| Goaltender | GS | W | SO | GAA | SV% | Blend | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Knightage 25 · mkt 165 | 55 | 19 | 3 | 2.82 | 0.902 | 1.39 | Starter |
Power-play points are normally split in Chicago
- 1 Connor Bedard C 21 PPP · 18.6% · 28.0% of his own points
- 2 Tyler Bertuzzi LW 21 PPP · 18.6% · 36.2% of his own points
- 3 Patrick Kane RW 19 PPP · 16.8% · 33.3% of his own points
54.0% is a league-typical split: a first unit that takes most of it, a second unit that is not decorative.
1 in, 0 out
Only moves that changed a ranked player's club are tracked. Every blend on this page is computed from the player's own history, so a summer arrival brings his numbers with him.
Arrivals
- Bowen Byram 25+ min/game and PP1 anchor projected
The Chicago schedule edge
The only input on this page that is already known. It does nothing to a first-round pick and a great deal to your last two bench spots.
Season opens 2026-09-29. Mint tiles help you; coral tiles cost you.
What this roster already did
Tyler Bertuzzi put up 3-0-3 with 4 shots on 2024-02-24 for TOR, worth 9.0 ESPN points. It is the 49th-biggest single game in the desk's ten-season file.
Patrick Kane owns the 10th-best RW season in the ten-year file: 2018-19, 81 games, 44-66-110, 2.64 ESPN points per game.
2 Chicago names to keep on the shelf
Where they play now and their NHL games so far. None of these are draft-night picks in a standard 12-team league. They are the names that change this page next August.
- Anton Frondell Djurgårdens IF SHL 43 GP · 28 P · 0.65 P/GP 12 NHL games
- Sacha Boisvert NCAA 26 GP · 17 P · 0.65 P/GP 7 NHL games
Reading the Chicago board
Connor Bedard leads at 2.08 blended ESPN points per game, 64th of 400 skaters. Patrick Kane (1.73) follows 0.35 back. Usage can flip that order. 11 skaters and 1 goaltender clear the pool line.
Shape: 23rd in power-play points, 31st in shots. Thin in both halves of a category league. Draft the top of this board and leave.
Patrick Kane is the widest gap: desk 136, market 182. 46 slots in your favour. Sam Rinzel runs the other way, 382 here against 223. You pay 159 slots over. 5 names are priced above the model. Be patient here.
Three players hold 54.0% of the club's 113 power-play points. A league-typical split, which makes the third name the underpriced one.
36 off-nights of 84, 6th in the league. 12 back-to-backs, 15th-fewest. Stream from here.
Spencer Knight started 55 at 2.82 and 0.902. Workhorse volume, and volume is most of what a fantasy goalie is.
1 in, 0 out on the tracked ledger, headlined by Bowen Byram. Average pool age 27.5. 3 trending up, 3 down. Next in line: Anton Frondell.
What this page does not know
Caveats, printed as the builder wrote them
- There is no projection here. Every rate is a weighted blend of what already happened, 0.6 on 2025-26, 0.3 on 2024-25, 0.1 on 2023-24, so a player whose role is about to change will be mispriced by exactly the amount his role changes.
- The DNA bars are club sums, not rates. A club with more pool-ranked skaters sums higher, which is the point: it measures the fantasy roster you can draft, not the average player on it.
- Power-play share is a proxy for first-unit time, not a measurement of it. It reads last season's points, so a club that rebuilt its top unit in the summer will read wrong until the season corrects it.
- The depth chart uses the pool's listed position. It is not a line-combination projection and no club has confirmed any of it.
- PG% is joined from a 250-player game-level build. Where a skater is missing from that build the column is blank rather than estimated.
- Roster membership follows the live NHL roster feed as of 2026-08-31. Training-camp cuts, waiver claims and September trades are not in it.
- Goaltender start counts are last season's, from whatever club the goaltender played for. They are workload evidence, not a depth-chart declaration.