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Fantasy Hockey: Weekly Strength of Schedule and Streaming Targets — Week 24

Brock Seguin
Brock Seguin(@Brock_Seguin)
Mar 25, 2024, 10:02 EDTUpdated: Apr 30, 2024, 00:44 EDT
Fantasy Hockey: Weekly Strength of Schedule and Streaming Targets — Week 24

Identifying the players with four games each week and filling your roster with those players can increase your chances of winning your fantasy hockey matchup. That’s why our Weekly Schedule tool is so helpful!

I took that weekly schedule and combined it with a Team Defense Score I created using key defensive metrics to find which teams/skaters have the best schedule this week.

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How it Works:

  • Team Defensive Ratings are given on a scale of 0-100, with 0 being the best possible defensive team and 100 being the worst. For context, CBJ currently grades as the worst defensively, with a rating of 92.16. Carolina is the best, with a rating of 12.46.
  • SCORE: The sum of all of the Defensive Ratings that the team will face this week.
  • AVG Opponent: The Average Defensive Ratings that the team will face this week.
  • Strength of Schedule is determined by the sum of defensive ratings, because we want players that play the most games but also have the easiest matchups.
  • Light Nights: A night in the NHL with eight or fewer games.

Week 24 – Strength of Schedule

Week 24 Opponent Ratings

Team Ratings are based solely on defensive metrics and goaltending quality in order to identify the best matchups for skaters. They are in no way a reflection of overall team quality. The lower the rating, the better the team is defensively = worse skater matchup.

Week 24 Streaming Targets

The NHL schedule is very strange this week, with three extremely busy days (Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday) and four days with two or fewer games (Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday). This adds additional importance on streaming this week. You will have a full lineup on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, so you need to focus on maximizing the number of games played by streaming players who play on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. Instead of going team by team this week, I’m going to look at the best streaming options for each day.

Monday

STL vs. VGK

  • William Karlsson (VGK – C) – 56% Rostered
  • Ivan Barbashev (VGK – C/LW) – 40% Rostered
  • Brayden Schenn (STL – C/LW) – 32% Rostered
  • Chandler Stephenson (VGK – C/LW) – 30% Rostered
  • Jake Neighbours (STL – LW/RW) – 25% Rostered
  • Torey Krug (STL – D) – 24% Rostered
  • Nicolas Roy (VGK – C/RW) – 7% Rostered
  • Kevin Hayes (STL – C) – 6% Rostered
  • Anthony Mantha (VGK – RW) – 5% Rostered
  • Brandon Saad (STL – LW) – 2% Rostered

VAN vs. LAK

  • Trevor Moore (LAK – LW/RW) – 61% Rostered
  • Elias Lindholm (VAN – C) – 52% Rostered
  • Quinton Byfield (LAK – C/LW/RW) – 44% Rostered
  • Pierre-Luc Dubois (LAK – C/LW) – 40% Rostered
  • Viktor Arvidsson (LAK – LW/RW) – 36% Rostered
  • Phillip Danault (LAK – C) – 24% Rostered
  • Conor Garland (VAN – RW) – 14% Rostered
  • Nils Hoglander (VAN – LW) – 7% Rostered
  • Ilya Mikheyev (VAN – LW/RW) – 2% Rostered

Wednesday

BUF vs. OTT

  • Dylan Cozens (BUF – C/RW) – 56% Rostered
  • Thomas Chabot (OTT – D) – 54% Rostered
  • Jake Sanderson (OTT – D) – 53% Rostered
  • Bowen Byram (BUF – D) – 49% Rostered
  • Shane Pinto (OTT – C) – 21% Rostered
  • JJ Peterka (BUF – RW) – 17% Rostered
  • Mathieu Joseph (OTT – RW) – 2% Rostered
  • Zach Benson (BUF – LW) – 2% Rostered

TBL vs. BOS

  • Jake DeBrusk (BOS – LW/RW) – 46% Rostered
  • Charlie Coyle (BOS – C) – 46% Rostered
  • Pavel Zacha (BOS – C) – 39% Rostered
  • Anthony Duclair (TBL – LW) – 35% Rostered
  • Nicholas Paul (TBL – C.LW) – 12% Rostered
  • Morgan Geekie (BOS – C/RW) – 8% Rostered
  • Anthony Cirelli (TBL – C) – 4% Rostred
  • Danton Heinen (BOS – LW) – 0% Rostered

Friday

BUF vs. NJD

  • Dylan Cozens (BUF – C/RW) – 56% Rostered
  • Bowen Byram (BUF – D) – 49% Rostered
  • Dawson Mercer (NJD – C/RW) – 19% Rostered
  • JJ Peterka (BUF – RW) – 17% Rostered
  • Zach Benson (BUF – LW) – 2% Rostered
  • Alex Holtz (NJD – RW) – 1% Rostered

Sunday

VAN vs. ANA

  • Elias Lindholm (VAN – C) – 52% Rostered
  • Troy Terry (ANA – RW) – 35% Rostered
  • Trevor Zegras (ANA – C) – 32% Rostered
  • Alex Killorn (ANA – LW/RW) – 17% Rostered
  • Conor Garland (VAN – RW) – 14% Rostered
  • Nils Hoglander (VAN – LW) – 7% Rostered
  • Leo Carlsson (ANA – C) – 6% Rostered
  • Ilya Mikheyev (VAN – LW/RW) – 2% Rostered
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