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Against a team of league-average starters with as many players as you have, so it reads as pace rather than as a half-built roster. SV% and GAA are team rates, as the matchup scores them. For your league's real rosters, see Standings.

The tiles: your chance to win each category in a week against an average team. Target decides your weeks, and DV pays most for it. Strong (80%+) you're likely to take anyway. Let go (20% or less) is far enough behind that DV stops paying for it, so the team leans into a majority instead of patching every hole. Gold outline: a category you targeted.

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Weekly schedule

Every team's games in a fantasy week (Monday to Sunday; Week 1 runs from opening night to the first Sunday), laid out the way Daily Faceoff does it: the opponent on each night, @ when away, and the week's games at the end. 4 stands out and 2 or fewer recedes: players on a four-game team get more chances to fill your categories. The number over each night is how many games it has: on a light night (7 or fewer) a streamed player is likeliest to get into your lineup. Preseason games don't count. Tap a team for its lineup.

Stat leaders

The league's top 20 in each of your categories, from last season (2025-26) until this one has games to count. Save % and GAA are worked out from saves, shots, goals against and minutes, among goalies with 25+ games (a few good starts shouldn't lead a season). The team is the one he played for that season. See all opens the player board on 2025-26 in stats, sorted by the category.

Head to head

Your roster against this week's opponent (from your league's matchups: Set matchups changes them), category by category, on the week's real schedule. Each night the players whose teams play fill your 13 skater and 2 goalie spots, best first; the rest sit, as in Yahoo. A player counts his season projection over 82 for each game he's in, so a goalie who starts 60 of 82 counts that share of a game. Player-games is how many games your lineup gets in. Pick another week, or another GM for a what-if (that week only). An average week is the old view: each season spread over 3.5 games. Close: one good or bad week could flip it. ◆ marks a category you're targeting; punted ones are faded.

Live feed · All

Every play that counts in a category, in every game on, newest on top, from the NHL's play-by-play: goals with their assists (PP, SH and EN marked), shots on goal with the goalie who faced them (his save), hits, blocks, faceoff wins and penalty minutes. Checked every 20 seconds while a feed panel is open. The clock is the time left in the period, as on TV.

Pause holds the list still while you read; new plays keep counting and come in when you resume. If the NHL stops answering, the last plays stay up. With no game on, it says when the next one starts. Preseason plays show here but count in no stats on this site.

Live feed · My team

Only the plays that move your team's numbers: your players' goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks, faceoff wins and penalty minutes, plus your goalies' saves and the goals scored on them. Your players are in gold. "Your players" are the ones you've drafted in the league you're on.

Same 20-second check, Pause and pages as the full feed.

Live feed · Watch list

Only the games you pick. Select today's games, tap the ones you want (tap again to drop one) and Done; Change adds or drops games any time. The picks clear with the day, at midnight (or once the night's last game ends), so each day starts with the picker.

Same 20-second check and Pause as the full feed. With only this feed open, the site asks the NHL about your games alone.

Degen feed

Every bet with a book price that hit tonight, the moment it hit, newest on top: our A, B and C picks with their grade, and every other priced line from the Main, Props and Players boards. The pills filter by market; More ▾ has every market, and ✎ picks which markets get a pill.

Same 20-second check and Pause as the live feed.

Goal feed · Season

Every game this season, who scored the first goal and which team scored first, with the odds we logged before the puck dropped: the best book price for the scorer's first goal, our model's chance and its grade. The books hang no "team scores first" line in our feed, so the team tab's price is the market's own, implied: each team's players' first-goal prices added up. First goal on team is each team's own first goal, two a game: its price is the scorer's share of his team's first-goal prices, the market's chance he scores his team's first goal if they score. Finished games only; tonight's first goals are in the live feed.

Lotto picks

Calculated, not winged: one pick a game for the first goal scorer, one for each team's first goal and one for the first team to score. Our chances come from the First goal board (the backtested first-goal model); each one is blended with the market's chance the way our prop grades blend, and the pick is whichever gives the best expected value at its price. The first scorer's price is the books' own. Our odds feed has no book line for a team's first scorer or the first team to score, so those prices are implied by the first-scorer odds, and marked "implied": check your own book's price against them.

Value means our blended chance beats the price by 5%+, about fair within 5%, no value worse: then it's the best of a bad lot, a $1 fun ticket at most. These are long shots: most nights most of them lose. Every pick is logged before puck drop and scored in the Report.

Sniper

Our second anytime-goal model. A player's own scoring rate (last season, this season counted 3×), times what the anytime goal study (Admin) found real, fitted together on 2023-25 and tested on 2025-26: home ice, back-to-backs, the opposing starter's save % and the opponent's goals against, with stars' rates pulled back toward their position's (it was too high on them). Hot and cold streaks are left out: the study found nothing in them. Logged before every game and settled, so it can be tuned day by day.

The Grinder

My $1,000 paper wallet. Bets are picked by rule and sized by quarter Kelly on the blended chance (ours mixed with the market's): two-sided markets only, a 3%+ edge, no lotto tickets, at most 2.5% of the wallet a bet, 5% a game and 12% a night. Each game's bets lock about 75 minutes before its puck drop (the Mac places them, so it has to be awake), then settle on the final. No money moves.

Model wallets

Every model on its own $1,000 paper wallet, so you can see at a glance which ones are earning their keep. To compare them fairly, each bets a flat $10 on every pick it makes, at the price logged before puck drop. The round robins bet $1 a combination ($15 a night), and The Grinder and the Parlay Kitchen keep their own quarter-Kelly stakes. Settled as the Report settles them. Tap a model for its nights. For fun: no money moves.

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Advice for the draft on screen, most important first, each marked with where it comes from. Your team and Standings: your projected rank in each category against every other team. League trend: the categories the other teams' picks are thin in. Value alert: a good player fallen well past his V Rank or ADP. Tier cliff: the last of a tier at a position you still need. Rivals: the GMs picking before you, from their Mirror profiles. Roster: starting spots against picks left.

🏆 Champion habit: what the last three Degens champions' drafts had in common: Team Trash (2023-24), Sonk (2024-25) and Sore Losers Club (2025-26), each set against the rest of that year's league and how their players actually played.

Goalies: all three waited, first goalie in rounds 4, 6 and 5, while the league took its first around round 3 to 4, and all three drafted three (the league 2.6 to 2.8). Their goalies still ranked top 3 in wins every year. Round 2: all three took a top D (Fox, Dahlin, Werenski). Lopsided: each dominated 5 to 7 categories and gave up 3 or 4; two of the three conceded faceoffs. Late rounds: every one found a top-100 skater after round 10. Waivers: the 2025-26 champion made 90 claims, the median team 43, and Team Trash won with the 13th-best draft of 16.

The tips are worked out from the draft as it stands: your roster, your projected rank in each category against every other team (as in Standings), and who's left. They change with every pick. Three seasons are three seasons: treat these as a champion's habits, not laws.

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Standings

Each block is one team: filled means your projected total beats theirs. Every player counts on Yahoo's 2026-27 projection (the board's season for one Yahoo doesn't project). Open roster spots count as an average player for everyone, so a team that has picked once more than you looks a step ahead until you pick.

Transactions

Every add and drop in your league since the draft, newest first, as Yahoo lists them: who each team picked up (free agent or waiver claim) and who it let go. An add with no drop means the team moved someone to IR. The rosters on this site follow these moves.

League standings

Current: only the players each team has drafted so far, over a season; a team with more picks is simply ahead, and one with no goalie yet loses save % and GAA. Once the draft is over, Current is the season itself: every rostered player's totals so far, live while games are on (the preseason's until opening night, as a demo). Projected: the same with every open roster spot filled by an average player, as Standings counts it, which is the fair comparison while the draft is still going. Both count every player on Yahoo's 2026-27 projection, whatever season the board shows (a season is a forecast), and a player Yahoo doesn't project on the board's season.

Every team is ranked Record is all-play: wins, losses and ties if they played every other team in one week, the way H2H standings sort themselves out over a season. Cats is how many of the 15 categories they'd win in an average matchup. Early in a draft a team that has picked once more looks a step ahead until the others pick.

Tap a team for its rank in every category: green in the top third of the league, red in the bottom third.

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