Each week during the regular season, here are the top 10 players to add off the fantasy hockey waiver wire with NHL EDGE stats insights. For more coverage, visit NHL.com/Fantasy.

FORWARDS

Josh Norris, BUF
26 percent rostered in fantasy
-Top line with elite goal-scorer Tage Thompson
-7 points (4 goals, 3 assists) in 4 preseason games
-EDGE stats: Among forward leaders in top skating speed, 20-plus mph speed bursts and midrange goals last season

Jimmy Snuggerud, STL
18 percent rostered in fantasy
-Top line with forwards Robert Thomas and Pavel Buchnevich and PP1 with Thomas, Buchnevich, Brayden Schenn and defenseman Cam Fowler
-2 assists, 6 shots on goal in 3 preseason games
-EDGE stats: Among forward leaders in top shot speed during 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Frank Nazar, CHI
13 percent rostered in fantasy
-Second line with forwards Teuvo Teravainen and Tyler Bertuzzi plus PP1 with elite center Connor Bedard and rookie defenseman Sam Rinzel
-5 points (4 goals, 1 assist), including 1 power-play goal and 1 game-winning goal, and 10 shots on goal in 4 preseason games
-EDGE stats: Among forward leaders in 22-plus mph speed bursts last season

Oliver Bjorkstrand, TBL
11 percent rostered in fantasy
-PP1 with Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, Jake Guentzel and Victor Hedman
-4 points (2 goals, 2 assists), including 2 power-play goals, and 19 shots on goal in 4 preseason games
-EDGE stats: Among forward leaders in average shot speed and tied for 10th at his position in high-danger shooting percentage

Mackie Samoskevich and Eetu Luostarinen, FLA
5 and 1 percent rostered in Yahoo Fantasy
–Aleksander Barkov out for season; Matthew Tkachuk out until at least December.
-Samoskevich: 5 points (2 goals, 3 assists), including 2 power-play goals, and 10 shots on goal in 3 preseason games
-Luostarinen: 5 points (1 goal, 4 assists), including 1 shorthanded goal, in 2 preseason games
-EDGE stats: Panthers led the NHL in high-danger goals during the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Ville Koivunen, PIT
3 percent rostered in fantasy
-Top-six role; Bryan Rust (lower body) out at least two weeks
-3 points (2 goals, 1 assist), including 1 game-winning goal, in 5 preseason games
-EDGE stats: Would have ranked among the League leaders in offensive zone time percentage last season