Fantasy Hockey 2025-26: Weekly Strength of Schedule and Streaming Targets — Week 20
Finding an edge in fantasy hockey often comes down to maximizing your man games — and targeting players with favourable matchups. Our Fantasy Hockey Strength of Schedule tool helps you do precisely that.
Each week, we evaluate every NHL team’s upcoming slate using three key factors:
- Games Played: More games mean more opportunities for fantasy points.
- Strength of Schedule (SOS): Based on opponent difficulty, the higher the score, the easier the matchups.
- Light Nights: Nights with eight or fewer NHL games, when it’s easier to fit extra players into your active lineup.
By combining these three components, the tool highlights which teams — and streamers — are best positioned for fantasy success this week.
If you’re looking for a full breakdown of every team’s upcoming schedule, check out our Fantasy Hockey Strength of Schedule Tool — updated daily to show which teams have the most games and valuable light-night matchups each week.
Week 20 Strength of Schedule
Week 20 Streaming Targets
Ottawa Senators
The Senators are the only team in the NHL this week with three light-night games, making them the easiest way to maximize games played with just a single pickup. The downside is they don’t have many high-quality streaming options.
Shane Pinto (C — 24% Rostered)
Pinto doesn’t get nearly enough credit for how good he’s been this season. He has 33 points (17G, 16A) in 52 games while playing some of the most difficult minutes of any forward in the NHL. That deployment limits his fantasy ceiling, but he’s still been a key catalyst for Ottawa.
Since the Olympic break, Pinto has four points (2G, 2A) in five games and leads the Senators in ixG (3.2), scoring chances (23), high-danger chances (14) and ATOI (19:07). If that usage continues, he could end up being one of the better streamers of the week.
Ridly Greig (C/LW/RW — 5% Rostered)
Since being promoted to the second line with Dylan Cozens and Brady Tkachuk, Greig has shown a bit more offensive life. Still, he’s mostly a banger-league option.
Greig has 10 points (3G, 7A) in his last 17 games while averaging 1.4 SOG and 1.3 hits per game, though much of that production came early in that stretch. He has just one assist in his last nine games.
If you’re looking for hits with some offensive upside, Greig or Michael Amadio (RW — 1%) are your best bets in Ottawa.
Philadelphia Flyers
The Flyers play two light-night games (Mon/Wed), which makes them ideal early-week streamers. You can then drop them mid-week for a Blues or Oilers player who plays Friday/Sunday, giving you four light-night games.
The problem: Philadelphia’s offense has been extremely quiet since the Olympic break, averaging just 1.93 GF/60, the lowest rate in the NHL.
Matvei Michkov (LW/RW — 41% Rostered)
Michkov likely isn’t available in many competitive leagues at 41% rostered. He was hotter heading into the Olympic break than he has been since.
He had five points (3G, 2A) in seven games before the break, but just three points (2G, 1A) in six games since. Still, he feels like the most likely Flyers forward to break out offensively this week.
Owen Tippett (LW/RW — 36% Rostered)
Tippett snapped a six-game goalless drought with a goal in Pittsburgh on Saturday and now has eight points (5G, 3A) in his last 13 games.
Putting their offensive struggles aside, Tippett leads Flyers forwards in shot attempts (21) and ranks second in shots on goal (10) since the break.
Noah Cates (C — 6% Rostered)
Cates has been Philadelphia’s most productive forward since the break, recording six points (2G, 4A) in six games.
Like Pinto in Ottawa, Cates plays extremely difficult minutes, which limits his offensive upside but leads to heavy ice time. He’s averaged over 19 minutes in his last three games and leads Flyers forwards in ixG (1.9) since the break.
Christian Dvorak (C — 5% Rostered)
Dvorak had a strong stretch in December and January but has cooled off with just three points (1G, 2A) in his last nine games.
During that stretch he’s averaged only 0.9 SOG and 2.2 shot attempts per game, so the floor is extremely low. The positive is his ice time and scoring chance generation — he leads the Flyers in high-danger chances since the break. He’s a high-risk, low-floor streamer who could still find a goal.
Alex Bump (LW — 0% Rostered)
Bump might be the most intriguing Flyers streamer this week. He made his NHL debut Saturday after Bobby Brink was traded to Minnesota and immediately scored on his only shot on goal.
More importantly, he registered seven shot attempts in 16:07 TOI. That aligns with his AHL profile in Lehigh Valley, where he’s averaging 3.2 SOG per game this season. If he continues skating with Dvorak, he should see enough opportunity to produce.
Washington Capitals
Like the Flyers, Washington plays Monday and Wednesday, making them another early-week streaming option before pivoting to Blues or Oilers players for the weekend.
Pierre-Luc Dubois (C/LW — 36% Rostered)
Dubois has been excellent since returning from injury before the Olympic break. He enters the week with six points (4G, 2A) in his last six games while averaging 2.7 SOG and 4.2 shot attempts per game.
He’s skating with Tom Wilson and Aliaksei Protas at 5-on-5, a line that has produced strong underlying numbers over the past two seasons. If Dubois continues playing 18–19 minutes with some power-play time, he should keep producing.
Ryan Leonard (RW — 10% Rostered)
Leonard has points in back-to-back games but had just one assist in the previous 14 games before that. His third-line role limits his offensive ceiling, though his shot volume remains strong.
Since the break he’s averaging 5.0 shot attempts per game, and his iCF/60 ranks top-30 in the NHL this season. He’s also a strong option in banger leagues, averaging 1.4 hits per game.
St. Louis Blues
The Blues play their light-night games on Friday and Sunday, making them ideal mid-week pickups to finish the week strong.
Pavel Buchnevich (35% Rostered)
Buchnevich has been productive with 14 points (6G, 8A) in his last 13 games.
The concern is that he’s no longer skating with Jordan Kyrou, which drops his on-ice xGF/60 from 2.92 to 2.58. Even so, he still feels like one of the Blues forward most likely to have a big week.
Jimmy Snuggerud (8% Rostered)
Snuggerud is the preferred St. Louis streamer right now. He enters the week on a heater with 14 points (5G, 8A) in his last 12 games while averaging 2.2 SOG, 4.3 shot attempts and 1.3 hits per game.
He’s currently skating top line with Robert Thomas and on PP1, making him an excellent combination of shot volume floor and goal-scoring upside.
Logan Mailloux (D — 1% Rostered)
With the injury to Colton Parayko and now the trade of Justin Faulk, Mailloux will take on a bigger role down the stretch. Since the Olympic break, Mailloux has averaged 21:23 TOI/gm and is second on the Blues in SOG (17) and shot attempts (28). With increased usage and PP2 time, he’s a viable deep-league defense streamer.
Edmonton Oilers
Like the Blues, Edmonton’s light-night games come Friday and Sunday, making them another weekend streaming option.
Vasily Podkolzin (18% Rostered)
Podkolzin is primarily a banger-league asset, averaging 2.97 hits per game this season. That’s where most of his roster percentage comes from.
However, he also has six points (3G, 3A) in his last eight games, and if he’s still skating with Leon Draisaitl by Friday, he becomes a legitimate standard-league streamer as well.
Matt Savoie (7% Rostered)
Savoie came out of the break flying with seven points (1G, 6A) in his last six games, largely while skating alongside Draisaitl.
However, he was moved to the third line on Sunday and saw his ice time drop by about three minutes. Monitor Edmonton’s lines before Friday — if he’s back with Draisaitl, stream him. If not, leave him on waivers.
Los Angeles Kings
The Kings have two light-night games (Monday and Friday), but that schedule gives you less flexibility than the other teams. They also rank among the lower-scoring teams in the league, which limits their streaming appeal.
Alex Laferriere (38% Rostered)
Laferriere is the most viable streaming option in Los Angeles.
He’s been a banger-league stud, averaging 3.8 hits per game since mid-January. During that same 13-game stretch he has seven points (4G, 3A) while averaging 2.9 SOG and 5.8 shot attempts per game.
That combination of shot volume and physical production has turned him into a counting league stud. But even if you take away the banger league stats, he still has a strong floor for standard league streams this week.