{"id":170968,"date":"2025-09-26T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170968\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:23:08","slug":"fantasy-hockey-mock-draft-for-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170968\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy hockey mock draft for 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORE FANTASY COVERAGE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/fantasy\/nhl-fantasy-hockey-top-250-200-rankings-drafts-players-big-board-281505474\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rankings<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/nhl-fantasy-hockey-projections-forward-defenseman-points-2025-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Projections<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/Fantasy\/nhl-fantasy-hockey-cheat-sheet-pools-draft-kit-282283006\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheat sheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: This is a non-keeper mock draft with standard categories (goals, assists, power-play points, shots on goal, hits and blocked shots for skaters; wins, goals-against average, save percentage, shutouts for goalies). Roster size is 12 players: two centers, two left wings, two right wings, three defensemen, two goalies and one utility skater spot (UTIL).<\/p>\n<p>PJ, CM, TP and DS indicate the fantasy manager (Pete Jensen, Chris Meaney, Troy Perlowitz, David Satriano) who selected each team (T1-T12) in this mock draft, which was conducted Sept. 26, 2025. The results may differ from NHL.com&#8217;s top 200 rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 1<\/p>\n<p>1. Nathan MacKinnon, F, COL (T1-TP)<br \/>2. Connor McDavid, F, EDM (T2-PJ)<br \/>3. Nikita Kucherov, F, TBL (T3-CM)<br \/>4. Leon Draisaitl, F, EDM (T4-DS)<br \/>5. Cale Makar, D, COL (T5-TP)<br \/>6. Andrei Vasilevskiy, G, TBL (T6-PJ)<br \/>7. Kirill Kaprizov, F, MIN (T7-CM)<br \/>8. Connor Hellebuyck, G, WPG (T8-DS)<br \/>9. Brady Tkachuk, F, OTT (T9-TP)<br \/>10. Mikko Rantanen, F, DAL (T10-PJ)<br \/>11. Jack Eichel, F, VGK (T11-CM)<br \/>12. Auston Matthews, F, TOR (T12-DS)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 2<\/p>\n<p>13. Jack Hughes, F, NJD (T12-DS)<br \/>14. David Pastrnak, F, BOS (T11-CM)<br \/>15. Sidney Crosby, F, PIT (T10-PJ)<br \/>16. Sam Reinhart, F, FLA (T9-TP)<br \/>17. Jake Oettinger, G, DAL (T8-DS)<br \/>18. Sergei Bobrovsky, G, FLA (T7-CM)<br \/>19. Kyle Connor, F, WPG (T6-PJ)<br \/>20. Mitch Marner, F, VGK (T5-TP)<br \/>21. Quinn Hughes, D, VAN (T4-DS)<br \/>22. Brayden Point, F, TBL (T3-CM)<br \/>23. William Nylander, F, TOR (T2-PJ)<br \/>24. Zach Werenski, D, CBJ (T1-TP)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 3<\/p>\n<p>25. Nick Suzuki, F, MTL (T1-TP)<br \/>26. Tage Thompson, F, BUF (T2-PJ)<br \/>27. Jake Guentzel, F, TBL (T3-CM)<br \/>28. Artemi Panarin, F, NYR (T4-DS)<br \/>29. Evan Bouchard, D, EDM (T5-TP)<br \/>30. Alex Ovechkin, F, WSH (T6-PJ)<br \/>31. Filip Forsberg, F, NSH (T7-CM)<br \/>32. Jesper Bratt, F, NJD (T8-DS)<br \/>33. Igor Shesterkin, G, NYR (T9-TP)<br \/>34. Macklin Celebrini, F, SJS (T10-PJ)<br \/>35. Clayton Keller, F, UTA (T11-CM)<br \/>36. Victor Hedman, D, TBL (T12-DS)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 4<\/p>\n<p>37. Matt Boldy, F, MIN (T12-DS)<br \/>38. Dylan Guenther, F, UTA (T11-CM)<br \/>39. Mark Scheifele, F, WPG (T10-PJ)<br \/>40. J.T. Miller, F, NYR (T9-TP)<br \/>41. Moritz Seider, D, DET (T8-DS)<br \/>42. Martin Necas, F, COL (T7-CM)<br \/>43. Lane Hutson, D, MTL (T6-PJ)<br \/>44. Seth Jarvis, F, CAR (T5-TP)<br \/>45. Logan Thompson, G, WSH (T4-DS)<br \/>46. Rasmus Dahlin, D, BUF (T3-CM)<br \/>47. Tim St\u00fctzle, F, OTT (T2-PJ)<br \/>48. Cole Caufield, F, MTL (T1-TP)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 5<\/p>\n<p>49. Adrian Kempe, F, LAK (T1-TP)<br \/>50. Mackenzie Blackwood, G, COL &#8211; INJ. (T2-PJ)<br \/>51. Jason Robertson, F, DAL (T3-CM)<br \/>52. Brandon Hagel, F, TBL (T4-DS)<br \/>53. Sebastian Aho, F, CAR (T5-TP)<br \/>54. Matthew Knies, F, TOR (T6-PJ)<br \/>55. Wyatt Johnston, F, DAL (T7-CM)<br \/>56. Nico Hischier, F, NJD (T8-DS)<br \/>57. Tom Wilson, F, WSH (T9-TP)<br \/>58. Jake Sanderson, D, OTT (T10-PJ)<br \/>59. Thomas Harley, D, DAL (T11-CM)<br \/>60. Kirill Marchenko, F, CBJ (T12-DS)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 6<\/p>\n<p>61. Ilya Sorokin, G, NYI (T12-DS)<br \/>62. Filip Gustavsson, G, MIN (T11-CM)<br \/>63. Roman Josi, D, NSH (T10-PJ)<br \/>64. MacKenzie Weegar, D, CGY (T9-TP)<br \/>65. Sam Bennett, F, FLA (T8-DS)<br \/>66. Connor Bedard, F, CHI (T7-CM)<br \/>67. Nikolaj Ehlers, F, CAR (T6-PJ)<br \/>68. Darcy Kuemper, G, LAK (T5-TP)<br \/>69. Josh Morrissey, D, WPG (T4-DS)<br \/>70. Roope Hintz, F, DAL (T3-CM)<br \/>71. Anthony Stolarz, G, TOR (T2-PJ)<br \/>72. Adam Fox, D, NYR (T1-TP)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 7<\/p>\n<p>73. Matvei Michkov, F, PHI (T1-TP)<br \/>74. Shea Theodore, D, VGK (T2-PJ)<br \/>75. Adin Hill, G, VGK (T3-CM)<br \/>76. Jacob Markstrom, G, NJD (T4-DS)<br \/>77. Lucas Raymond, F, DET (T5-TP)<br \/>78. Robert Thomas, F, STL (T6-PJ)<br \/>79. Dougie Hamilton, D, NJD (T7-CM)<br \/>80. Jakob Chychrun, D, WSH (T8-DS)<br \/>81. Dylan Holloway, F, STL (T9-TP)<br \/>82. Linus Ullmark, G, OTT (T10-PJ)<br \/>83. Pavel Dorofeyev, F, VGK (T11-CM)<br \/>84. Mikhail Sergachev, D, UTA (T12-DS)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 8<\/p>\n<p>85. Dustin Wolf, G, CGY (T12-DS)<br \/>86. Tomas Hertl, F, VGK (T11-CM)<br \/>87. JJ Peterka, F, UTA (T10-PJ)<br \/>88. Jackson LaCombe, D, ANA (T9-TP)<br \/>89. Dylan Larkin, F, DET (T8-DS)<br \/>90. Valeri Nichushkin, F, COL (T7-CM)<br \/>91. Brandon Montour, D, SEA (T6-PJ)<br \/>92. John Tavares, F, TOR (T5-TP)<br \/>93. Ivan Demidov, F, MTL (T4-DS)<br \/>94. Kevin Fiala, F, LAK (T3-CM)<br \/>95. Alex DeBrincat, F, DET (T2-PJ)<br \/>96. Jordan Binnington, G, STL (T1-TP)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 9<\/p>\n<p>97. Jordan Kyrou, F, STL (T1-TP)<br \/>98. Miro Heiskanen, D, DAL (T2-PJ)<br \/>99. Carter Verhaeghe, F, FLA (T3-CM)<br \/>100. Logan Cooley, F, UTA (T4-DS)<br \/>101. Noah Dobson, D, MTL (T5-TP)<br \/>102. Nazem Kadri, F, CGY (T6-PJ)<br \/>103. Sam Montembeault, G, MTL (T7-CM)<br \/>104. Dylan Strome, F, WSH (T8-DS)<br \/>105. Adam Fantilli, F, CBJ (T9-TP)<br \/>106. Gabriel Landeskog, F, COL (T10-PJ)<br \/>107. Erik Karlsson, D, PIT (T11-CM)<br \/>108. Bryan Rust, F, PIT (T12-DS)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 10<\/p>\n<p>109. Matthew Tkachuk, F, FLA &#8211; INJ. (T12-DS)<br \/>110. Vincent Trocheck, F, NYR (T11-CM)<br \/>111. Frederik Andersen, G, CAR (T10-PJ)<br \/>112. Timo Meier, F, NJD (T9-TP)<br \/>113. Gabriel Vilardi, F, WPG (T8-DS)<br \/>114. Elias Pettersson, F, VAN (T7-CM)<br \/>115. Lukas Dostal, G, ANA (T6-PJ)<br \/>116. Juuse Saros, G, NSH (T5-TP)<br \/>117. Brad Marchand, F, FLA (T4-DS)<br \/>118. Pyotr Kochetkov, G, CAR (T3-CM)<br \/>119. Zach Hyman, F, EDM &#8211; INJ. (T2-PJ)<br \/>120. Shayne Gostisbehere, D, CAR (T1-TP)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 11<\/p>\n<p>121. Jeremy Swayman, G, BOS (T1-TP)<br \/>122. Juraj Slafkovsky, F, MTL (T2-PJ)<br \/>123. Cam Fowler, D, STL (T3-CM)<br \/>124. Charlie McAvoy, D, BOS (T4-DS)<br \/>125. Quinton Byfield, F, LAK (T5-TP)<br \/>126. Alex Tuch, F, BUF (T6-PJ)<br \/>127. Sam Rinzel, D, CHI (T7-CM)<br \/>128. Zeev Buium, D, MIN (T8-DS)<br \/>129. Zayne Parekh, D, CGY (T9-TP)<br \/>130. John Carlson, D, WSH (T10-PJ)<br \/>131. Matthew Schaefer, D, NYI (T11-CM)<br \/>132. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, F, EDM (T12-DS)<\/p>\n<p>ROUND 12<\/p>\n<p>133. Luke Hughes, D, NJD (RFA) (T12-DS)<br \/>134. Thatcher Demko, G, VAN (T11-CM)<br \/>135. Morgan Geekie, F, BOS (T10-PJ)<br \/>136. Karel Vejmelka, G, UTA (T9-TP)<br \/>137. Andrei Svechnikov, F, CAR (T8-DS)<br \/>138. Seth Jones, D, FLA (T7-CM)<br \/>139. Aaron Ekblad, D, FLA (T6-PJ)<br \/>140. Rickard Rakell, F, PIT (T5-TP)<br \/>141. Drake Batherson, F, OTT &#8211; INJ. (T4-DS)<br \/>142. Alexander Nikishin, D, CAR (T3-CM)<br \/>143. Colton Parayko, D, STL (T2-PJ)<br \/>144. Travis Konecny, F, PHI (T1-TP)<\/p>\n<p>Key injury: Aleksander Barkov, F, FLA<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>T1-TP<\/p>\n<p>C: Nathan MacKinnon, F, COL<br \/>C: Nick Suzuki, F, MTL<br \/>LW: Cole Caufield, F, MTL<br \/>LW: Travis Konecny, F, PHI<br \/>RW: Adrian Kempe, F, LAK<br \/>RW: Matvei Michkov, F, PHI<br \/>D: Zach Werenski, D, CBJ<br \/>D: Adam Fox, D, NYR<br \/>D: Shayne Gostisbehere, D, CAR<br \/>G: Jordan Binnington, G, STL<br \/>G: Jeremy Swayman, G, BOS<br \/>UTIL: Jordan Kyrou, F, STL<\/p>\n<p>T2-PJ<\/p>\n<p>C: Connor McDavid, F, EDM<br \/>C: Tim St\u00fctzle, F, OTT<br \/>LW: Alex DeBrincat, F, DET<br \/>LW: Juraj Slafkovsky, F, MTL<br \/>RW: William Nylander, F, TOR<br \/>RW: Tage Thompson, F, BUF<br \/>D: Shea Theodore, D, VGK<br \/>D: Miro Heiskanen, D, DAL<br \/>D: Colton Parayko, D, STL<br \/>G: Mackenzie Blackwood, G, COL (INJ.)<br \/>G: Anthony Stolarz, G, TOR<br \/>UTIL: Zach Hyman, F, EDM (INJ.)<\/p>\n<p>T3-CM<\/p>\n<p>C: Brayden Point, F, TBL<br \/>C: Roope Hintz, F, DAL<br \/>LW: Jake Guentzel, F, TBL<br \/>LW: Jason Robertson, F, DAL<br \/>RW: Nikita Kucherov, F, TBL<br \/>RW: Kevin Fiala, F, LAK<br \/>D: Rasmus Dahlin, D, BUF<br \/>D: Cam Fowler, D, STL<br \/>D: Alexander Nikishin, D, CAR<br \/>G: Adin Hill, G, VGK<br \/>G: Pyotr Kochetkov, G, CAR<br \/>UTIL: Carter Verhaeghe, F, FLA<\/p>\n<p>T4-DS<\/p>\n<p>C: Leon Draisaitl, F, EDM<br \/>C: Logan Cooley, F, UTA<br \/>LW: Artemi Panarin, F, NYR<br \/>LW: Brad Marchand, F, FLA<br \/>RW: Ivan Demidov, F, MTL<br \/>RW: Brandon Hagel, F, TBL<br \/>D: Quinn Hughes, D, VAN<br \/>D: Josh Morrissey, D, WPG<br \/>D: Charlie McAvoy, D, BOS<br \/>G: Logan Thompson, G, WSH<br \/>G: Jacob Markstrom, G, NJD<br \/>UTIL: Drake Batherson, F, OTT (INJ.)<\/p>\n<p>T5-TP<\/p>\n<p>C: Sebastian Aho, F, CAR<br \/>C: John Tavares, F, TOR<br \/>LW: Lucas Raymond, F, DET<br \/>LW: Rickard Rakell, F, PIT<br \/>RW: Mitch Marner, F, VGK<br \/>RW: Seth Jarvis, F, CAR<br \/>D: Cale Makar, D, COL<br \/>D: Evan Bouchard, D, EDM<br \/>D: Noah Dobson, D, MTL<br \/>G: Darcy Kuemper, G, LAK<br \/>G: Juuse Saros, G, NSH<br \/>UTIL: Quinton Byfield, F, LAK<\/p>\n<p>T6-PJ<\/p>\n<p>C: Robert Thomas, F, STL<br \/>C: Nazem Kadri, F, CGY<br \/>LW: Kyle Connor, F, WPG<br \/>LW: Alex Ovechkin, F, WSH<br \/>RW: Nikolaj Ehlers, F, CAR<br \/>RW: Alex Tuch, F, BUF<br \/>D: Lane Hutson, D, MTL<br \/>D: Brandon Montour, D, SEA<br \/>D: Aaron Ekblad, D, FLA<br \/>G: Andrei Vasilevskiy, G, TBL<br \/>G: Lukas Dostal, G, ANA<br \/>UTIL: Matthew Knies, F, TOR<\/p>\n<p>T7-CM<\/p>\n<p>C: Wyatt Johnston, F, DAL<br \/>C: Connor Bedard, F, CHI<br \/>LW: Kirill Kaprizov, F, MIN<br \/>LW: Filip Forsberg, F, NSH<br \/>RW: Martin Necas, F, COL<br \/>RW: Valeri Nichushkin, F, COL<br \/>D: Dougie Hamilton, D, NJD<br \/>D: Sam Rinzel, D, CHI<br \/>D: Seth Jones, D, FLA<br \/>G: Sergei Bobrovsky, G, FLA<br \/>G: Sam Montembeault, G, MTL<br \/>UTIL: Elias Pettersson, F, VAN<\/p>\n<p>T8-DS<\/p>\n<p>C: Nico Hischier, F, NJD<br \/>C: Dylan Larkin, F, DET<br \/>LW: Andrei Svechnikov, F, CAR<br \/>LW: Jesper Bratt, F, NJD<br \/>RW: Dylan Strome, F, WSH<br \/>RW: Gabriel Vilardi, F, WPG<br \/>D: Moritz Seider, D, DET<br \/>D: Jakob Chychrun, D, WSH<br \/>D: Zeev Buium, D, MIN<br \/>G: Connor Hellebuyck, G, WPG<br \/>G: Jake Oettinger, G, DAL<br \/>UTIL: Sam Bennett, F, FLA<\/p>\n<p>T9-TP<\/p>\n<p>C: J.T. Miller, F, NYR<br \/>C: Adam Fantilli, F, CBJ<br \/>LW: Brady Tkachuk, F, OTT<br \/>LW: Dylan Holloway, F, STL<br \/>RW: Sam Reinhart, F, FLA<br \/>RW: Tom Wilson, F, WSH<br \/>D: MacKenzie Weegar, D, CGY<br \/>D: Jackson LaCombe, D, ANA<br \/>D: Zayne Parekh, D, CGY<br \/>G: Igor Shesterkin, G, NYR<br \/>G: Karel Vejmelka, G, UTA<br \/>UTIL: Timo Meier, F, NJD<\/p>\n<p>T10-PJ<\/p>\n<p>C: Sidney Crosby, F, PIT<br \/>C: Macklin Celebrini, F, SJS<br \/>LW: Gabriel Landeskog, F, COL<br \/>LW: Morgan Geekie, F, BOS<br \/>RW: Mikko Rantanen, F, DAL<br \/>RW: JJ Peterka, F, UTA<br \/>D: Jake Sanderson, D, OTT<br \/>D: Roman Josi, D, NSH<br \/>D: John Carlson, D, WSH<br \/>G: Linus Ullmark, G, OTT<br \/>G: Frederik Andersen, G, CAR<br \/>UTIL: Mark Scheifele, F, WPG<\/p>\n<p>T11-CM<\/p>\n<p>C: Jack Eichel, F, VGK<br \/>C: Tomas Hertl, F, VGK<br \/>LW: Dylan Guenther, F, UTA<br \/>LW: Clayton Keller, F, UTA<br \/>RW: David Pastrnak, F, BOS<br \/>RW: Pavel Dorofeyev, F, VGK<br \/>D: Thomas Harley, D, DAL<br \/>D: Erik Karlsson, D, PIT<br \/>D: Matthew Schaefer, D, NYI<br \/>G: Filip Gustavsson, G, MIN<br \/>G: Thatcher Demko, G, VAN<br \/>UTIL: Vincent Trocheck, F, NYR<\/p>\n<p>T12-DS<\/p>\n<p>C: Auston Matthews, F, TOR<br \/>C: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, F, EDM<br \/>LW: Jack Hughes, F, NJD<br \/>LW: Matt Boldy, F, MIN<br \/>RW: Kirill Marchenko, F, CBJ<br \/>RW: Bryan Rust, F, PIT<br \/>D: Victor Hedman, D, TBL<br \/>D: Mikhail Sergachev, D, UTA<br \/>D: Luke Hughes, D, NJD (RFA)<br \/>G: Ilya Sorokin, G, NYI<br \/>G: Dustin Wolf, G, CGY<br \/>UTIL: Matthew Tkachuk, F, FLA (INJ.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORE FANTASY COVERAGE Rankings | Projections | Cheat sheet &#8212; NOTES: This is a non-keeper mock draft with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-170968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}