Sam Bennett fantasy outlook 2026-27

How Sam Bennett is being used

Over FLA's last 5 games Sam Bennett played 5 games, 18:43 a night with 4:19 on the power play: line 1 by even-strength ice time and the second power-play unit.

Lines and units are derived from the NHL's per-game ice time over FLA's last 5 games, not an official line chart. He was on the ice for 50% 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-0.4
• A-0.4
• +/--0.8
• PPP-0.8
• SOG+0.0
• HIT+0.9
• BLK-0.8

Last 6 games, 2026-27

Sam Bennett in Week 3 (Oct 12-18)

Florida Panthers play 4 games in Week 3: Mon @BUF, Tue @CBJ, Thu VAN, Sat SEA. One is the second night of a back-to-back. At 1.72 fantasy points a game, that projects to 6.9 for the week in points leagues. Week 4 (Oct 19-25): 3 games.

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Centers ranked around him

1. C44
   

   J.T. Miller

   CNYR
   1.76 FP/G
2. C45
   

   Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

   CEDM
   1.75 FP/G
3. C46
   

   Boone Jenner

   CWSH
   1.73 FP/G
4. C47
   

   Sam Bennett

   CFLA
   1.72 FP/G
5. C48
   

   Shane Pinto

   COTT
   1.71 FP/G
6. C49
   

   Pavel Zacha

   CBOS
   1.68 FP/G
7. C50
   

   Gabriel Vilardi

   CWPG
   1.67 FP/G

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Start or sit in Week 3: Sam Bennett against

• Sam Bennett or Will Cuylle?107th, 1.85 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or Joel Eriksson Ek?117th, 1.82 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or Will Smith?120th, 1.80 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or Alex Laferriere?123rd, 1.79 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or Vincent Trocheck?127th, 1.77 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or J.T. Miller?128th, 1.76 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or Ryan Nugent-Hopkins?130th, 1.75 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or Boone Jenner?134th, 1.73 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or Artturi Lehkonen?137th, 1.72 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or Shane Pinto?138th, 1.71 FP/G
• Sam Bennett or Pavel Zacha?144th, 1.68 FP/G