The highly anticipated 2025-26 hockey season is just around the corner, offering an exciting opportunity for both seasoned veterans and newcomers to dive into fantasy hockey. There`s a wealth of information and tools available to help you prepare for your draft and manage your league effectively.
Develop your strategy, assemble your ideal team, and optimize your lineups daily or weekly as you compete against other teams week after week to claim your own fantasy hockey championship.
Key Resources:
- Прогнозы (Projections)
- Пробный драфт (Mock Draft)
- Рейтинги (Rankings)
- Результаты живого драфта (Live Draft Results)
- Травмы (Injuries)
- Статистика (Stats)
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If you read only one fantasy hockey article, let it be your comprehensive guide to drafting, playing, and winning your league like a true expert.
Have the first pick in the draft? These six players are undoubtedly worthy of the No. 1 spot. Who will you choose?
Looking for the ideal draft strategy? Here are the optimal choices for each position in the first two rounds.
“Sleepers” often exceed expectations, while “busts” perform below their rating. Here are players to draft or avoid, based on their current evaluation.
Which players should you pick in every draft? We present Greg Wyshynski`s cheat sheet with his favorites.
Struggling with late-round picks? Sean offers reasons to draft twelve players available in the 20th round and later.
Delve deeper into analysis using tier lists, and always have a backup plan in case your favorite player is chosen right before your turn.
- Draft Tier Lists: Forwards | Defensemen
- What you need to know before you select your goalies.
- Let`s analyze statistics to predict which players are the best candidates to surpass their career records.
- Breakout Players: Forwards | Defensemen
- Playing in H2H categories or Roto leagues? Here are the category specialists who will give you a decisive advantage.
- Playing in a four-team league? Unsure when to draft Matthew Tkachuk? See how experts conducted their mock drafts and their key insights.
- Which teams have a primary goaltender, and which use a rotation? Here are the goalies worth drafting from each such system.
- Who should you draft, or avoid, at your current position?
- Here are 12 rookies to know, regardless of whether you`re in a redraft or keeper league.
- Who will step up for the Florida Panthers in the absence of Matthew Tkachuk and Aleksander Barkov?
The 2025-26 NHL season kicks off on October 7.
What`s happening in the league? Here are the main stories to follow as each team opens training camp.
Predicting players ready to make a significant leap forward.
Come up with the best fantasy hockey team name for your draft with ideas and advice from `The Drop` host Arda Öcal.
Tired of the same league year after year? Here are seven ways to make your fantasy hockey league more exciting.
Keeper or dynasty league? We have rankings for that! See how the best NHL players are evaluated for the next five years.
- Offseason Review: Reactions to free agent signings/trades | NHL Draft players to watch.
- Points or categories? Your guide to all types of fantasy leagues and why you should try them all.
- Forgot last year? Fantasy hockey awards | Top scorers | What we learned.
