"Please don't draft my guy."
We've all been there, right? Pick by pick, NHL players are coming off the board, but you have that one hidden MVP in the queue that you believe no one in your draft knows is an ATM for fantasy points. Finally, you're on the clock. You check the board just to be sure and then make a selection that you know will power your team to victory and make the other fantasy owners rage with jealousy over your perceptiveness and ingenuity.
The 10 players discussed here are the ones on whom I plant my rhetorical flag for the 2025-26 NHL season.