Nashville Predators fantasy preview 2026-27.
10 skaters and 2 goaltenders clear the pool line. Roman Josi leads at 2.31 blended ESPN points per game. The club ranks 25th in the league in power-play points and 30th in assists. Every figure below is a completed season or a published calendar.
Every Nashville 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 | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26of 400 | Roman Josi | D | 36 | 2.22 | 2.31 | 2.31 | +0.41 | 13-42-55 in 68 | 24 | 181 | 24 | 101 | 59% | 78 | +52 | |
| 28of 400 | Filip Forsberg | LW | 32 | 2.21 | 2.31 | 2.30 | +0.52 | 40-35-75 in 82 | 26 | 246 | 124 | 33 | 61% | 43 | +15 | |
| 78of 400 | Steven Stamkos | C | 36 | 2.05 | 1.68 | 1.98 | +0.56 | 42-24-66 in 82 | 26 | 206 | 89 | 36 | 52% | 80 | +2 | |
| 100of 400 | Ryan O'Reilly | C | 35 | 1.96 | 1.72 | 1.88 | +0.31 | 25-49-74 in 81 | 20 | 154 | 17 | 66 | 61% | 125 | +25 | |
| 250of 400 | Jonathan Marchessault | C | 35 | 1.16 | 1.66 | 1.40 | +0.10 | 12-19-31 in 62 | 8 | 132 | 75 | 9 | 39% | 167 | -83 | |
| 326of 400 | Ilya LyubushkinNEW · DAL | D | 32 | 1.23 | 1.21 | 1.26 | -0.35 | 1-8-9 in 53 | 0 | 33 | 68 | 90 | — | — | n/r | |
| 332of 400 | Brady Skjei | D | 32 | 1.10 | 1.41 | 1.25 | +0.03 | 3-23-26 in 82 | 3 | 111 | 70 | 84 | — | 228 | -104 | |
| 341of 400 | Ross ColtonNEW · COL | C | 30 | 1.05 | 1.58 | 1.24 | -0.29 | 9-15-24 in 73 | 0 | 153 | 159 | 25 | — | — | n/r | |
| 378of 400 | Alexander KerfootNEW · UTA | C | 32 | 1.16 | 1.10 | 1.17 | — | 7-6-13 in 34 | 0 | 28 | 30 | 27 | — | — | n/r | |
| 429of 400 | Mavrik BourqueNEW · DAL | C | 24 | 1.18 | 0.94 | 1.10 | +0.52 | 20-21-41 in 82 | 5 | 147 | 78 | 21 | — | 202 | -227 |
- 26 Roman Josi D · age 36 · mkt 78 2.31blend 2.2225-26 2.3124-25 +0.41H2−H1 24PPP 181SOG 24HIT 101BLK 59%PG% 13-42-55 in 68+52
- 28 Filip Forsberg LW · age 32 · mkt 43 2.30blend 2.2125-26 2.3124-25 +0.52H2−H1 26PPP 246SOG 124HIT 33BLK 61%PG% 40-35-75 in 82+15
- 78 Steven Stamkos C · age 36 · mkt 80 1.98blend 2.0525-26 1.6824-25 +0.56H2−H1 26PPP 206SOG 89HIT 36BLK 52%PG% 42-24-66 in 82+2
- 100 Ryan O'Reilly C · age 35 · mkt 125 1.88blend 1.9625-26 1.7224-25 +0.31H2−H1 20PPP 154SOG 17HIT 66BLK 61%PG% 25-49-74 in 81+25
- 250 Jonathan Marchessault C · age 35 · mkt 167 1.40blend 1.1625-26 1.6624-25 +0.10H2−H1 8PPP 132SOG 75HIT 9BLK 39%PG% 12-19-31 in 62-83
- 326 Ilya Lyubushkin D · age 32 · mkt n/r 1.26blend 1.2325-26 1.2124-25 -0.35H2−H1 0PPP 33SOG 68HIT 90BLK —PG% 1-8-9 in 53n/r
- 332 Brady Skjei D · age 32 · mkt 228 1.25blend 1.1025-26 1.4124-25 +0.03H2−H1 3PPP 111SOG 70HIT 84BLK —PG% 3-23-26 in 82-104
- 341 Ross Colton C · age 30 · mkt n/r 1.24blend 1.0525-26 1.5824-25 -0.29H2−H1 0PPP 153SOG 159HIT 25BLK —PG% 9-15-24 in 73n/r
- 378 Alexander Kerfoot C · age 32 · mkt n/r 1.17blend 1.1625-26 1.1024-25 —H2−H1 0PPP 28SOG 30HIT 27BLK —PG% 7-6-13 in 34n/r
- 429 Mavrik Bourque C · age 24 · mkt 202 1.10blend 1.1825-26 0.9424-25 +0.52H2−H1 5PPP 147SOG 78HIT 21BLK —PG% 20-21-41 in 82-227
Nashville are 25th in power-play points
Six categories, summed across every Nashville 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 172 lg avg 194 26th
- A 242 lg avg 329 30th
- PPP 112 lg avg 130 25th
- SOG 1391 lg avg 1644 28th
- HIT 734 lg avg 909 26th
- BLK 492 lg avg 789 30th
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.
Centre 6
6 deep · most in the league
Stamkos1.98 +2 O'Reilly1.88 +25 Marchessault1.40 -83 Colton1.24 Kerfoot1.17 Bourque1.10 -227Right wing 0
0 deep · 29th of 32
Nobody in the poolCrease 2
Nashville against the other 31
Draftable stock
4 Nashville skaters inside the desk's top 100 — 12th 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
67.9% held by the top three — 4th-most concentrated
Above the league median of 55.2%. The names outside the top three are even-strength assets.
Saros is a workhorse
Last season's starts, split between the goaltenders the pool ranks here. The calendar puts 11 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. Saros sits at 72.0%.
| Goaltender | GS | W | SO | GAA | SV% | Blend | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juuse Sarosage 31 · mkt 154 | 59 | 28 | 0 | 3.16 | 0.894 | 1.11 | Starter |
| Justus Annunenage 26 · mkt n/r | 23 | 10 | 2 | 2.68 | 0.906 | 1.17 | Depth |
Power-play points are concentrated in Nashville
- 1 Filip Forsberg LW 26 PPP · 23.2% · 34.7% of his own points
- 2 Steven Stamkos C 26 PPP · 23.2% · 39.4% of his own points
- 3 Roman Josi D 24 PPP · 21.4% · 43.6% of his own points
A top three holding 67.9% is a closed first unit. The fourth name was not on it last season.
Nashville sat out the tracked market
Nashville Predators do not appear in the desk's 2026 offseason ledger in either direction. The ledger tracks moves that changed a ranked fantasy player's club, so an absence means the fantasy-relevant roster is intact.
The Nashville 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 2026-10-01. Mint tiles help you; coral tiles cost you.
What this roster already did
Steven Stamkos put up 4-0-4 with 7 shots on 2023-12-14 for TBL, worth 9.2 ESPN points. It is the 35th-biggest single game in the desk's ten-season file.
Roman Josi owns the 1st-best D season in the ten-year file: 2021-22, 80 games, 23-73-96, 2.98 ESPN points per game.
4 Nashville 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.
- Joakim Kemell AHL 48 GP · 29 P · 0.60 P/GP 18 NHL games
- Brady Martin OHL 24 GP · 24 P · 1.00 P/GP 3 NHL games
- Cameron Reid OHL 57 GP · 56 P · 0.98 P/GP no NHL games yet
- Wyatt Cullen NTDP 40 GP · 45 P · 1.13 P/GP no NHL games yet
Reading the Nashville board
10 Nashville skaters clear the pool line, plus 2 goaltenders. Roman Josi sets the ceiling: 2.31 a night, 26th in the pool. Filip Forsberg (2.30) sits 0.01 back. A shared top, not an anchor.
Shape: 25th in power-play points, 30th in assists. Thin in both halves of a category league. Draft the top of this board and leave.
Roman Josi is the widest gap: desk 26, market 78. 52 slots in your favour. Mavrik Bourque runs the other way, 429 here against 202. You pay 227 slots over. 2 names carry a 20-slot edge.
Three players hold 67.9% of the club's 112 power-play points. That is a closed first unit. Everyone below it is an even-strength asset until deployment says otherwise.
20 off-nights of 84, 32nd in the league. 11 back-to-backs, 9th-fewest. Hold the last bench spot for somebody else.
Juuse Saros started 59 at 3.16 and 0.894. Workhorse volume, and volume is most of what a fantasy goalie is.
Nothing in or out on the tracked ledger. Average pool age 32.4. 1 trending up, 8 down. Next in line: Joakim Kemell.
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.