New Jersey Devils fantasy preview 2026-27.
12 skaters and 1 goaltender clear the pool line. Jack Hughes leads at 2.50 blended ESPN points per game. The club ranks 6th in the league in shots and 22nd in hits. Every figure below is a completed season or a published calendar.
Every New Jersey 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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| 11of 400 | Jack Hughes | C | 25 | 2.54 | 2.40 | 2.50 | +0.52 | 27-50-77 in 61 | 23 | 228 | 4 | 32 | 69% | 33 | +22 | |
| 61of 400 | Nico Hischier | C | 27 | 1.99 | 2.29 | 2.09 | +0.04 | 28-38-66 in 82 | 23 | 211 | 58 | 62 | 51% | 76 | +15 | |
| 103of 400 | Timo Meier | RW | 29 | 1.81 | 1.95 | 1.88 | -0.26 | 24-20-44 in 77 | 10 | 269 | 131 | 53 | 48% | 73 | -30 | |
| 105of 400 | Jesper Bratt | LW | 28 | 1.71 | 2.16 | 1.88 | +0.16 | 22-49-71 in 82 | 20 | 178 | 74 | 24 | 55% | 69 | -36 | |
| 119of 400 | Dougie Hamilton | D | 33 | 1.63 | 1.95 | 1.79 | +0.63 | 12-27-39 in 77 | 14 | 203 | 87 | 77 | 39% | 161 | +42 | |
| 138of 400 | Anthony ManthaNEW · PIT | RW | 32 | 1.78 | 1.43 | 1.73 | +0.27 | 33-31-64 in 81 | 13 | 152 | 52 | 40 | 57% | 207 | +69 | |
| 246of 400 | Brett Pesce | D | 31 | 1.45 | 1.41 | 1.42 | -0.90 | 1-6-7 in 37 | 0 | 45 | 11 | 80 | — | — | n/r | |
| 267of 400 | Luke Hughes | D | 23 | 1.33 | 1.45 | 1.37 | -0.02 | 6-29-35 in 68 | 13 | 150 | 19 | 52 | — | 193 | -74 | |
| 306of 400 | Dawson Mercer | C | 24 | 1.32 | 1.31 | 1.30 | -0.44 | 20-22-42 in 82 | 7 | 158 | 33 | 47 | — | — | n/r | |
| 347of 400 | Jonas Siegenthaler | D | 29 | 1.20 | 1.27 | 1.23 | +0.13 | 0-16-16 in 82 | 0 | 60 | 92 | 135 | — | — | n/r | |
| 360of 400 | Brenden Dillon | D | 35 | 1.16 | 1.17 | 1.20 | -0.37 | 3-12-15 in 82 | 0 | 55 | 202 | 103 | — | — | n/r | |
| 362of 400 | Luke EvangelistaNEW · NSH | RW | 24 | 1.32 | 0.99 | 1.20 | -0.15 | 12-44-56 in 81 | 17 | 176 | 21 | 21 | — | 222 | -140 |
- 11 Jack Hughes C · age 25 · mkt 33 2.50blend 2.5425-26 2.4024-25 +0.52H2−H1 23PPP 228SOG 4HIT 32BLK 69%PG% 27-50-77 in 61+22
- 61 Nico Hischier C · age 27 · mkt 76 2.09blend 1.9925-26 2.2924-25 +0.04H2−H1 23PPP 211SOG 58HIT 62BLK 51%PG% 28-38-66 in 82+15
- 103 Timo Meier RW · age 29 · mkt 73 1.88blend 1.8125-26 1.9524-25 -0.26H2−H1 10PPP 269SOG 131HIT 53BLK 48%PG% 24-20-44 in 77-30
- 105 Jesper Bratt LW · age 28 · mkt 69 1.88blend 1.7125-26 2.1624-25 +0.16H2−H1 20PPP 178SOG 74HIT 24BLK 55%PG% 22-49-71 in 82-36
- 119 Dougie Hamilton D · age 33 · mkt 161 1.79blend 1.6325-26 1.9524-25 +0.63H2−H1 14PPP 203SOG 87HIT 77BLK 39%PG% 12-27-39 in 77+42
- 138 Anthony Mantha RW · age 32 · mkt 207 1.73blend 1.7825-26 1.4324-25 +0.27H2−H1 13PPP 152SOG 52HIT 40BLK 57%PG% 33-31-64 in 81+69
- 246 Brett Pesce D · age 31 · mkt n/r 1.42blend 1.4525-26 1.4124-25 -0.90H2−H1 0PPP 45SOG 11HIT 80BLK —PG% 1-6-7 in 37n/r
- 267 Luke Hughes D · age 23 · mkt 193 1.37blend 1.3325-26 1.4524-25 -0.02H2−H1 13PPP 150SOG 19HIT 52BLK —PG% 6-29-35 in 68-74
- 306 Dawson Mercer C · age 24 · mkt n/r 1.30blend 1.3225-26 1.3124-25 -0.44H2−H1 7PPP 158SOG 33HIT 47BLK —PG% 20-22-42 in 82n/r
- 347 Jonas Siegenthaler D · age 29 · mkt n/r 1.23blend 1.2025-26 1.2724-25 +0.13H2−H1 0PPP 60SOG 92HIT 135BLK —PG% 0-16-16 in 82n/r
- 360 Brenden Dillon D · age 35 · mkt n/r 1.20blend 1.1625-26 1.1724-25 -0.37H2−H1 0PPP 55SOG 202HIT 103BLK —PG% 3-12-15 in 82n/r
- 362 Luke Evangelista RW · age 24 · mkt 222 1.20blend 1.3225-26 0.9924-25 -0.15H2−H1 17PPP 176SOG 21HIT 21BLK —PG% 12-44-56 in 81-140
New Jersey are 6th in shots
Six categories, summed across every New Jersey 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 188 lg avg 194 19th
- A 344 lg avg 329 13th
- PPP 140 lg avg 130 11th
- SOG 1885 lg avg 1644 6th
- HIT 784 lg avg 909 22nd
- BLK 726 lg avg 789 22nd
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
New Jersey against the other 31
Draftable stock
2 New Jersey skaters inside the desk's top 100 — 26th 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
47.1% held by the top three — 29th-most concentrated
Below the league median of 55.2%. Power-play value here is not locked behind three players.
One New Jersey name in the crease
Last season's starts, split between the goaltenders the pool ranks here. The calendar puts 13 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. Allen sits at 100.0%.
| Goaltender | GS | W | SO | GAA | SV% | Blend | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Allenage 36 · mkt 214 | 36 | 17 | 1 | 2.74 | 0.903 | 1.62 | Tandem |
Power-play points are normally split in New Jersey
- 1 Jack Hughes C 23 PPP · 16.4% · 29.9% of his own points
- 2 Nico Hischier C 23 PPP · 16.4% · 34.8% of his own points
- 3 Jesper Bratt LW 20 PPP · 14.3% · 28.2% of his own points
47.1% is a league-typical split: a first unit that takes most of it, a second unit that is not decorative.
0 in, 2 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
- Jacob Markstrom top-12 fantasy netminder upside if healthy
- Simon Nemec clear PP1 runway; dynasty/deep-league stash
The New Jersey 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
Timo Meier put up 3-1-4 with 7 shots on 2024-03-07 for NJD, worth 9.8 ESPN points. It is the 18th-biggest single game in the desk's ten-season file.
Timo Meier owns the 15th-best RW season in the ten-year file: 2021-22, 77 games, 35-41-76, 2.59 ESPN points per game.
2 New Jersey 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.
- Alexander Command J20 NATIONELL 30 GP · 44 P · 1.47 P/GP no NHL games yet
- Anton Silayev KHL 61 GP · 3 P · 0.05 P/GP no NHL games yet
Reading the New Jersey board
1 inside the desk top 50, 2 inside the top 100. Jack Hughes is the ceiling at 2.50, 11th overall. Nico Hischier (2.09) follows 0.41 back. Usage can flip that order.
Shape: 6th in shots, 22nd in hits. A middle club in both halves of a category league; the edge here is player-by-player, not roster-wide.
Anthony Mantha is the widest gap: desk 138, market 207. 69 slots in your favour. Luke Evangelista runs the other way, 362 here against 222. You pay 140 slots over. 3 names carry a 20-slot edge.
Three players hold 47.1% of the club's 140 power-play points. A league-typical split, which makes the third name the underpriced one.
25 off-nights of 84, 29th in the league. 13 back-to-backs, 20th-fewest. Hold the last bench spot for somebody else.
Jake Allen started 36 at 2.74 and 0.903. Tandem volume caps the ceiling whatever the rates say.
0 in, 2 out on the tracked ledger, headlined by Jacob Markstrom leaving. Average pool age 28.3. 4 trending up, 4 down. Next in line: Alexander Command.
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.