Detroit Red Wings fantasy preview 2026-27.
9 skaters and 2 goaltenders clear the pool line. Moritz Seider leads at 2.46 blended ESPN points per game. The club ranks 15th in the league in power-play points and 25th in goals. Every figure below is a completed season or a published calendar.
Every Detroit 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 | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13of 400 | Moritz Seider | D | 25 | 2.51 | 2.36 | 2.46 | -0.03 | 10-50-60 in 82 | 28 | 187 | 128 | 180 | 51% | 44 | +31 | |
| 45of 400 | Alex DeBrincat | RW | 28 | 2.31 | 2.08 | 2.20 | +0.18 | 41-44-85 in 82 | 23 | 287 | 38 | 39 | 65% | 34 | -11 | |
| 62of 400 | Dylan Larkin | C | 30 | 2.12 | 1.92 | 2.08 | -0.05 | 34-33-67 in 74 | 24 | 229 | 46 | 33 | 65% | 63 | +1 | |
| 93of 400 | Lucas Raymond | LW | 24 | 1.88 | 2.02 | 1.91 | -0.35 | 25-51-76 in 80 | 27 | 173 | 43 | 29 | 65% | 67 | -26 | |
| 127of 400 | Justin Faulk | D | 34 | 1.90 | 1.49 | 1.77 | -0.36 | 16-24-40 in 78 | 9 | 148 | 70 | 132 | 41% | 192 | +65 | |
| 198of 400 | Viktor ArvidssonNEW · BOS | LW | 33 | 1.76 | 1.10 | 1.54 | +0.63 | 25-29-54 in 69 | 9 | 175 | 24 | 36 | 59% | 225 | +27 | |
| 204of 400 | Ben Chiarot | D | 35 | 1.55 | 1.38 | 1.52 | -0.27 | 5-10-15 in 82 | 0 | 103 | 170 | 160 | 17% | — | n/r | |
| 351of 400 | Andrew Copp | C | 32 | 1.32 | 1.05 | 1.22 | +0.08 | 9-34-43 in 79 | 8 | 115 | 44 | 64 | — | — | n/r | |
| 369of 400 | Marco Kasper | C | 22 | 1.06 | 1.46 | 1.19 | +0.33 | 9-10-19 in 81 | 2 | 131 | 186 | 51 | — | — | n/r |
- 13 Moritz Seider D · age 25 · mkt 44 2.46blend 2.5125-26 2.3624-25 -0.03H2−H1 28PPP 187SOG 128HIT 180BLK 51%PG% 10-50-60 in 82+31
- 45 Alex DeBrincat RW · age 28 · mkt 34 2.20blend 2.3125-26 2.0824-25 +0.18H2−H1 23PPP 287SOG 38HIT 39BLK 65%PG% 41-44-85 in 82-11
- 62 Dylan Larkin C · age 30 · mkt 63 2.08blend 2.1225-26 1.9224-25 -0.05H2−H1 24PPP 229SOG 46HIT 33BLK 65%PG% 34-33-67 in 74+1
- 93 Lucas Raymond LW · age 24 · mkt 67 1.91blend 1.8825-26 2.0224-25 -0.35H2−H1 27PPP 173SOG 43HIT 29BLK 65%PG% 25-51-76 in 80-26
- 127 Justin Faulk D · age 34 · mkt 192 1.77blend 1.9025-26 1.4924-25 -0.36H2−H1 9PPP 148SOG 70HIT 132BLK 41%PG% 16-24-40 in 78+65
- 198 Viktor Arvidsson LW · age 33 · mkt 225 1.54blend 1.7625-26 1.1024-25 +0.63H2−H1 9PPP 175SOG 24HIT 36BLK 59%PG% 25-29-54 in 69+27
- 204 Ben Chiarot D · age 35 · mkt n/r 1.52blend 1.5525-26 1.3824-25 -0.27H2−H1 0PPP 103SOG 170HIT 160BLK 17%PG% 5-10-15 in 82n/r
- 351 Andrew Copp C · age 32 · mkt n/r 1.22blend 1.3225-26 1.0524-25 +0.08H2−H1 8PPP 115SOG 44HIT 64BLK —PG% 9-34-43 in 79n/r
- 369 Marco Kasper C · age 22 · mkt n/r 1.19blend 1.0625-26 1.4624-25 +0.33H2−H1 2PPP 131SOG 186HIT 51BLK —PG% 9-10-19 in 81n/r
Detroit are 15th in power-play points
Six categories, summed across every Detroit 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. A middle club in both halves of a category league; the edge here is player-by-player, not roster-wide.
- G 174 lg avg 194 25th
- A 285 lg avg 329 25th
- PPP 130 lg avg 130 15th
- SOG 1548 lg avg 1644 21st
- HIT 749 lg avg 909 25th
- BLK 724 lg avg 789 23rd
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 centre, barren at right 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 2
Detroit against the other 31
Draftable stock
4 Detroit skaters inside the desk's top 100 — 9th 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
60.8% held by the top three — 7th-most concentrated
Above the league median of 55.2%. The names outside the top three are even-strength assets.
Gibson 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. Gibson sits at 64.8%.
| Goaltender | GS | W | SO | GAA | SV% | Blend | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Gibsonage 33 · mkt 160 | 57 | 29 | 5 | 2.72 | 0.901 | 1.67 | Starter |
| Daniil Tarasovage 27 · mkt n/r | 31 | 13 | 0 | 3.05 | 0.895 | 0.56 | Tandem |
Power-play points are normally split in Detroit
- 1 Moritz Seider D 28 PPP · 21.5% · 46.7% of his own points
- 2 Lucas Raymond LW 27 PPP · 20.8% · 35.5% of his own points
- 3 Dylan Larkin C 24 PPP · 18.5% · 35.8% of his own points
60.8% is a league-typical split: a first unit that takes most of it, a second unit that is not decorative.
0 in, 1 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.
Departures
- Sebastian Cossa AHL standout; tandem path with Vejmelka; dynasty stash
The Detroit 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 2026-10-02. Mint tiles help you; coral tiles cost you.
What this roster already did
Dylan Larkin put up 3-1-4 with 4 shots on 2026-04-09 for DET, worth 8.9 ESPN points. It is the 54th-biggest single game in the desk's ten-season file.
Moritz Seider owns the 15th-best D season in the ten-year file: 2025-26, 82 games, 10-50-60, 2.51 ESPN points per game.
2 Detroit 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.
- Michael Brandsegg-Nygård Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 60 GP · 44 P · 0.73 P/GP 14 NHL games
- Carter Bear Everett Silvertips WHL 53 GP · 77 P · 1.45 P/GP no NHL games yet
Reading the Detroit board
Moritz Seider leads at 2.46 blended ESPN points per game, 13th of 400 skaters. Alex DeBrincat (2.20) follows 0.26 back. Usage can flip that order. 9 skaters and 2 goaltenders clear the pool line.
Shape: 15th in power-play points, 25th in goals. A middle club in both halves of a category league; the edge here is player-by-player, not roster-wide.
Justin Faulk is the widest gap: desk 127, market 192. 65 slots in your favour. Lucas Raymond runs the other way, 93 here against 67. You pay 26 slots over. 3 names carry a 20-slot edge.
Three players hold 60.8% of the club's 130 power-play points. A league-typical split, which makes the third name the underpriced one.
30 off-nights of 84, 20th in the league. 12 back-to-backs, 15th-fewest. Neutral at the bottom of your roster.
John Gibson started 57 at 2.72 and 0.901. Workhorse volume, and volume is most of what a fantasy goalie is.
0 in, 1 out on the tracked ledger, headlined by Sebastian Cossa leaving. Average pool age 29.2. 3 trending up, 3 down. Next in line: Michael Brandsegg-Nygård.
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.