Hi All,

We took 20 skaters who went late in drafts and received an enormous amount of sleeper hype predraft and checked where they rank now among all skaters, in points scoring and in banger scoring, plus the role behind it: linemates, power-play share and ice time.

Wide awake - Podkolzin: ADP 263, now 27th in points and 13th in bangers. Top line with McDavid and Draisaitl, 54% of Edmonton's PP time. Filling in on the top PP again now with Hyman likely concussed. - Quinn: ADP 271, now 42nd. 11 points in 11 games, 69% of Buffalo's PP. - Stankoven (28th), Roslovic (45th) and Perfetti (47th) are all top 50 from ADPs of 217 to 281. - Lekkerimäki is the biggest gap against our preseason projection: 0.69 points a game against the 0.15 we had him at. His ice time went from about 11 minutes to 15 to 18 after his fourth game.

Stirring - Kent Johnson: top line with Fantilli and Nichushkin, 66% of Columbus's PP, 7 points in 9 games, ranked 130th. Leads Jackets forwards. - Shabanov (98th) and Hagens (93rd) are both inside the top 100 from ADPs near 280 to 290.

Has the role, not cashing it - Kantserov plays on Chicago's top line with Bedard and Kane and gets 67% of the team's PP, but has 4 goals, 0 assists in 11 games. Of everyone here, the most opportunity behind the fewest points. - Parekh (67%) and T.J. Hughes (63%) are in the same corner.

Still asleep - Kreider (ADP 230, now 354th), Chinakhov (315th, day to day), Chernyshov (306th, out with an upper-body injury), Wood (315th) and Barkey (359th). Rest easy my friends.

Scoring: points rank is G 2, A 1, PPP 0.5, SOG 0.1; banger rank adds hits and blocks. Full write-up with every player's line and PP role: https://hockey.kodoanalytics.com/articles/sleepers-check-2026-10-25

Do they not have all rookies in the A or something? He’s leading the AHL in points as a d-man and just isn’t even there

Incredibly deep league which is why they're rostered. Not my roster/team.

Just gotta get 2 pts every time he gets 1. 50% of the time it works all the time.

Nightly start odds for every team are on the goalie grid: https://hockey.kodoanalytics.com/goalie-starts

We’re back for another week of “What we learned”.

Injuries continue to build up and Hellebuyck is back🔥

Let me know if there’s anything you’d add to what we’ve learned in the previous 7 days of Fantasy.

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So he’s playing tonight. Anyone else super desperate for a goalie? I’ve got Allen and askorov. But Allen’s gonna be close to useless when helle goes.

Do we think Is remier and garand are gonna split till Korpi is healthy and Reimer get the boot once he’s healthy or would they send down garand instead?

Racing to the wire on Sunday night.

EDIT: I think people may have misunderstood what I meant with this post. Oh well, that's on me for choosing the wrong meme format.

What are everyone’s thoughts on Zach Hyman’s play so far? He’s been very unimpressive since his return. Has anyone watched him play, and does he look the same? Do you expect him to bounce back and return to his top 75ish ranked play?

I'm in a 12T H2H Points league. G(3), A(2), S(0.1), H(0.2), B(0.5), PPP(1). I just traded Miller for Holloway, thoughts?

Do we think he's gonna take the starting job from Dobes? 5 Wins in 6 games, putting up stellar numbers.

I mostly lurk here and don’t really get involved in political arguments, but I’ve been following the Tony the Tigga posts and I’m genuinely confused how it got this far.

From what I understand, it started with Moses posting about liberals in random player chats. People asked him to stop or wanted a mute option… In response Yahoo mods (Sukjeet) claim the mute button is hid behind a payroll?

Apparently Moses works for yahoo in the chat engagement department and says that if Yahoo puts muting behind Fantasy Plus, everyone paying to mute him is technically generating revenue for his department.

There are other accounts like Ghostface Killa and Helta Skelta who are also kinda playing into it.

I guess what I’m wondering is how many people are paying for Fantasy plus now? I mean, I think it could be worth the money just to mute Moses and NNSteven lol.

Anyway, longtime lurker. First time posting here. Apologies if the formatting is weird.

Everything you need to know about last week's fantasy stats.

Larkin is shooting 3.6%. Unlucky? Or bad karma?

Werenski averages a league leading 6 shots per game.

McJesus is on an 11 game point streak. The Oilers have played 11 games...

Wifi is back from IR and went straight into hitting people again

J. Farabee is only 14% ESPN owned, has 4 games this week, > pt/g last week, on Calgary's top line and PP1. If you read this far, you should probably grab him now for a nice stream.

Eve's super outside pick this week issssss - T Stecher. Find out why and sooo much more here -> https://fantasyapples.com/news/last-week-in-fantasy-2026-10-19

Side Note and very cool enhancement

Open in Fantasy Apples: Each article links directly do data analysis. Click to view the players mentioned in the player stats grid.

LFG CLIPS: Each player news card now links to LFG Clips about that player! It's expecially fun to use in the fight article section :D. Jeannot got some pretty good upper cuts in! Check it out

Fantrax and ESPN linking have been added, but not tested. Feel free to try it out too.

Notice: This is a new personal project and a work in progress. All feedback is very much welcome :). Until then, I'm just having a lot of fun making it. I hope you enjoy it too! Thanks for all the support.

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I'm one of those poor unfortunate souls who keeps seeing Ullmark get injured.

No one of serious consequence is left. Ottawa is playing four games this week.

Who is going to start more games? Ersson or Johansson?

I know. They both suck. But just to get some goalie games.

Remember to sort this thread by NEW to find the latest comments!!

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Here is the Fantasy Hockey Schedule Summary for Week 5 of the 2026-27 season. Here is a quick summary of what this chart shows and how to utilize it to optimize your fantasy teams.

Total: The number of games each team plays in the given week

Off-Night: The number of games each team plays where less than half the teams (16 teams) in the NHL are playing. Generally, your fantasy teams should be able to fit in players on teams with more off-nights for that week.

B2B: Shorthand of “Back-to-Back”. The number of games each team plays where they played the day before. In general, playing. Generally, teams playing on consecutive nights tend to score less goals in the 2nd game.

Tired Opp: Displays if a game is being played against an opponent who played the day prior. Generally, teams that played the day before tend to allow more goals (and play backup goalies) than teams which are rested.

Score: A valuation of how favourable a team’s schedule is for fantasy in the given time period considering total games played, off-night, B2B, tired opponents, and strength of opponents. In general, players from these team are more likely to optimize your roster for a week by maximizing games played and production.

I hope this explanation helped! Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this graphic.

You can generate your own date ranges here: https://tjstats.ca/apps/hockey-apps/nhl-schedule-app/

The start of the season is always finicky with Streamers, so my apologies if it is not showing the proper data.

I sold high on Pod and got Scheif. I think I fleeced him considering Pod got demoted to pp2 due to Nuge and Hyman returning although he’s still line 1 with mcdavo and Drai. What do you think?

Anyone has watched the Flames on this win streak? Are their best forwards likely to keep producing or revert back to early season form?

Also, how’s team defense looking? Would they be good enough to get Cooley decent numbers (GAA, SV%) through the season after he cools off?