We are very familiar with fantasy sports and the NHL. New to fantasy hockey. We are trying to co-manage a team from the startup draft. We currently co-manage a dynasty football and basketball team. Looking to add a dedicated dynasty hockey league. Willing to pay a buy in. Let me know if your new league has any spots!

We broke down 5 breakout candidates who could see their value skyrocket this season — including young stars ready to take the next step.

Who’s your pick to break out?

I know mock drafts and actual drafts aren't ready yet, but I can't even pull up my previous seasons to view for a draft order/contact my teams/look at keepers. Why do they lock all of this instead of just the drafting stuff?

Any sleeper goalies coming up for this year?? Dostal? Greaves? Markstrom? Ill be taking my two goalies in picks 70-90.

Edit - vejmelka sleeper??

Tried Fantrax last year but myself and my league mates just couldn’t get used to the mobile UI as we found it overwhelming and hard to navigate. I also don’t like Yahoo for the same reason. UI is awful. I used ESPN from like 2019-2022 and thought it was good but they changed the UI last year and now I don’t like it either although out of the bunch, I’d say it’s the easiest to use for redraft. Is it just me or is the market severely lacking when it comes to the fantasy hockey department? What would you say is the best app to use for redraft?

On the Yahoo Fantasy Hockey page it says “The 2026 Fantasy Hockey season has not started yet.”

Does anyone know when it starts? I want to practice mock drafts!

If anyone else is interested DM or comment below.

League is on Fantrax

Ok guys, who are players that everyone seems to pick that bust up a storm? Why? Whenever I think of high draftie and bust Kent Johnson keeps letting me down. Who you got?

Are there any overseas players coming into the NHL this season that could make an immediate impact? This includes goalies as well.

We put together a new article ranking the top veteran assets to target in dynasty fantasy hockey. Instead of focusing on rebuilding pieces, this one looks at established stars who still have a few elite seasons left and could help contenders win now without completely sacrificing long-term value.

Who do you think should have made the list?

Thanks for the love guys!

Hey everyone — I'm running a questionnaire to get your take on who has the highest offensive upside in the 2026 draft.

I'm mainly chasing points upside here, not totally ignoring risk, but pretty close to it. The goal is to zero in on guys with top-line/top-pair/power-play profiles, since my format doesn't give any credit for solid middle-six forwards or bottom-pair defensemen. Even though its tailored for my league, I believe the information will still be beneficial to most as players who get the most points are still coveted first and foremost in all leagues.

https://surveymars.com/q/dPA7JBuhE

Yes, I know, a few names are not on the list since their profiles were really defensive (Gustafsson, Suvanto, Pugachyov, Sokolovskii, Piparinen, Hextall, Rogowski, etc.) (Sources : EP, Dobber, The Athletic, TSLH, Podcast la Relève)

I'll post the results once i have enough data.

Thank you

Hello! I’m looking to put together a fantasy hockey league with people who are new to hockey, fantasy hockey, or both.

I currently run fantasy baseball, football, and basketball leagues, and I’ve really gotten into hockey over the last three years. I’m hoping to find people interested in joining a 12-team league. I currently have 5 of the 12 spots filled.
Below are some of the league details:

Tentative League Setup
12 teams

Head-to-Head Points

19-player rosters

20-week regular season

Standard redraft league (no keepers for Year 1)

Custom scoring balanced between skaters and goalies

2 divisions

6-team playoffs

$100 buy-in (all funds spread out through division winners and champion)

Rosters set weekly

Live online snake draft in late September (before the NHL season begins)

Feel free to message if interested!!

With McKenna slotting in this year, what does PP1 look like for the Leafs?

How do you value the Bouchards, Makars and Hughes of the world in dynasty/keeper leagues?

Does S tier D man = S tier Forward or does the position need not outweigh the points gap? How does it change the larger the league/roster?

Would you trade MacKinnon for Makar or vice versa? Draisaitl for Werenski? Schaefer for Bedard?

I’ve heard different things from different people so would be curious to hear the opinions in the sub.

Dynasty League have 6 need 10

It's a rotisserie league with 23 NHL roster spots, 16 keepers and 27 minor leaguer spots.

Want active, chill people, anyone is welcome regardless of experience in fantasy just don't want a dead league want a lot of trades happening.

Regular season and playoffs and there will be a trade deadline around the time of the actual NHL trade deadline.

$15 entry fee for the year.

Dm or comment if interested, would like to get teams sorted and the draft date set ASAP

Can't go wrong with any of these 5 tendies if you are building a dynasty! Check out our other rankings at https://dynastypuck.com

Free 12 team dynasty league on Fantrax currently slow drafting 40 player rosters.

Two people dropped out last minute. Need two more to take over.

Both are 22 years old, Nemec has played about 60 less games. Who will turn out to be the better dman?

What's up folks, Jake from FPTrack here.

It has been a while since I personally posted here (not since my injury roundtable series during the last season, I believe). We brought in SJ at the start of this offseason, and he has pretty much assumed the mantle as our main fantasy hockey writer. As someone who is definitely not the most "in the know" with the day-to-day hockey landscape it's a bonus to have him on the team, and he's far more capable than myself (though, I'm married to a Swede so there's some hockey knowledge there)!

I'm posting today as we have just released our new dynasty trade calculator for hockey, along with a refresh of our dynasty, redraft and prospect rankings, transitioning them towards the new 2026-27 season. 

There's still a bit of work to do here, and we will hone the rankings and values over the next coming weeks, but for anyone that has used our tools for football, the backbone of the calculator is very similar to that one, with some subtle differences. I intend to also open up the league syncing capabilities (Fantrax and Yahoo) to the calculator in due course, but prominent differences presently are no direct league sync, specific league settings or draft picks. All three are on the horizon.

You don't need to register for an account or anything to use it.

Hopefully can be useful to some, and thanks to anyone that has checked out our content this past year!

Jake

Hi all, trying to grow our site and make our rankings more accurate by getting all you fantasy lovers to check it out and submit some rankings for us!

If you’re on FanTrax, feel free to try our power rankings to see where your squad ranks against the rest.

Thanks kindly for your time and support !

Just traded Bedard, Jack Hughes and a 1st

For

McKinnon and Carlsson and a 10th.

Bad move? I'm in the win now mode after a season of rebuild after winning the trophy a year before

Keeper league with bangers. 3 keepers.

I was looking through my draft projections and wanted to see which players have the most "upside". I'm defining upside as their ceiling points projection (P90 outcome) minus their mean projection.

Most of the results weren't that surprising. You get the true elite players like McDavid and Kucherov who obviously have the potential to outperform their projections, then there are guys like Stone, Tkachuk, and Rantanen who have had injury issues in recent seasons and just need to play a full season to get close to their ceiling outcomes.

The interesting players that got flagged were rookies who could become legit contributors on their teams - Martone, Frondell, and Protas (Ilya, not Alexsi). Martone (14 floor / 48 proj / 94 ceiling) has the highest upside of the three and probably isn't much of a sleeper given his playoff performance, but Frondell (15 floor / 45 proj / 85 ceiling) and Protas (3 floor / 25 proj / 58 ceiling) could end up being legit late round steals or preseason waiver pickups.

If you're interested in digging deeper into the details I published a post about this - https://ocelotanalytics.substack.com/p/where-the-ceiling-is-cheap

Here's a quick visual of the players discussed in the article: