John Tavares fantasy outlook 2026-27

How John Tavares is being used

Over TOR's last 5 games John Tavares played 4 games, 17:18 a night with 3:32 on the power play: line 2 by even-strength ice time and the first power-play unit.

Lines and units are derived from the NHL's per-game ice time over TOR's last 5 games, not an official line chart. He was on the ice for 53% of the team's power-play time.

Per-game stats

Category profile

Each bar is his per-game output against the 180 skaters a 12-team league rosters, in standard deviations. Right helps your team, left hurts it.

• G+0.3
• A-0.2
• +/--2.3
• PPP-0.0
• SOG+0.1
• HIT-0.3
• BLK-0.7

Last 5 games, 2026-27

John Tavares in Week 3 (Oct 12-18)

Toronto Maple Leafs play 3 games in Week 3: Tue @UTA, Thu BUF, Sat NYI. At 1.93 fantasy points a game, that projects to 5.8 for the week in points leagues. Week 4 (Oct 19-25): 4 games.

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Centers ranked around him

1. C28
   

   Morgan Geekie

   CBOS
   2.02 FP/G
2. C29
   

   Tomas Hertl

   CVGK
   2.00 FP/G
3. C30
   

   Elias Pettersson

   CVAN
   1.98 FP/G
4. C31
   

   John Tavares

   CTOR
   1.93 FP/G
5. C32
   

   Mikael Granlund

   CANA
   1.92 FP/G
6. C33
   

   Bobby McMann

   CSEA
   1.87 FP/G
7. C34
   

   Roope Hintz

   CDAL
   1.87 FP/G

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Start or sit in Week 3: John Tavares against

• John Tavares or Nico Hischier?66th, 2.04 FP/G
• John Tavares or Alexis Lafrenière?70th, 2.03 FP/G
• John Tavares or Tomas Hertl?80th, 2.00 FP/G
• John Tavares or Elias Pettersson?82nd, 1.98 FP/G
• John Tavares or Jared McCann?85th, 1.95 FP/G
• John Tavares or Troy Terry?89th, 1.93 FP/G
• John Tavares or Mikael Granlund?91st, 1.92 FP/G
• John Tavares or Viktor Arvidsson?92nd, 1.92 FP/G
• John Tavares or Bobby McMann?100th, 1.87 FP/G
• John Tavares or Adam Fantilli?109th, 1.85 FP/G