What is Weekly Fantasy Hockey with OwnersBox?
OwnersBox is excited to introduce our new weekly fantasy hockey contests live now on our platform. Contests are played over a 7-day period and are available to enter on Saturday.
Fantasy hockey gives people the opportunity to put together their best fantasy teams and compete. Most fantasy hockey leagues are either Tournament style or Head-2-Head contests.
Users assemble a 10-player roster consisting of five forwards, three defense players, and two goalies. You accumulate points throughout the contest which include goals, assists, shots on goal, blocked shots, and plus/minus.
In Tournament games, users will build a 10-player lineup while staying under the $200,000 salary cap. Salaries are assigned to each player with the number of games played over the 7-days indicated in the lineup builder. With this in mind, game strategy will play a role in the player selection process under this format, with some players having two games played and others with four over the week. Therefore, users will have to keep an eye on the game limitations per position. Going over the limits in any position will trigger the ‘best ball’ feature. When ‘best ball’ is active, only the best scoring games within your game opportunities will be scored, while the lower ones are dropped.
Users can participate in a live snake draft to select their team. Contests can feature anywhere from 2 to 16 participants and last anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks. Entrants participate in a single-elimination bracket-style contest. Prizes are paid out weekly, with the contest winner taking the majority of the prize pool.
While there are many different forms of Fantasy Hockey, here are some key features that make OwnersBox unique:
- Contests are available to play every day.
- Receive player news notifications after your lineups are built.
- Users have the ability to swap players throughout the week. When swapping a player, 20% of the remaining salary from the player you’re dropping will be deducted from the available salary to be used towards a new player.
- A goalie set to backup will not consume Game Opportunities or salary. If they appear during a game, their fantasy points will not count.
- Going over the game limit will automatically trigger the Best Ball feature. When Best Ball is active, only the best scoring games within your Game Opportunities will be scored, while the lowest ones are dropped.
What is a Head-To-Head Fantasy Hockey Contest?
For some leagues, this means using a Snake Draft format, where the order of who picks/drafts are reversed each round. For example, Round 1 will have the draft order as User 1, User 2, User 3, User 4. And Round 2 will have the draft order as User 4, User 3, User 2, User 1.
Each Head-2-Head contest gives players a fair chance of filling their rosters with a good set of players and each contestant will have their own unique team (since no player can be drafted by multiple contestants, and rosters are not pre-determined). Each contestant has one minute to pick their players. If a decision isn’t made within this time limit, a player is auto-drafted.
Pro Tip: By adding players to your queue, a player from this list will be auto-drafted if you reach your time limit.
You can also swap and bench players throughout the course of the week. If a player on your team becomes inactive, you have the option to swap them out without consuming a swap.
What is a Tournament Contest?
Pro Tip: When adding a player, make sure to keep your overall salary in mind. Choose too many high-end Forwards and you might leave yourself short when choosing the other roster positions you need to fill.
An important feature of the Tournament style contest is Best Ball. Your players will accumulate points in every game they play, unless Best Ball is activated. If Best Ball is activated, your roster will accumulate points in the best overall games they play based on the number of Game Opportunities you have.
- Forwards – 16 game opportunities
- Defense – 10 game opportunities
- Goalies – 4 game opportunities

How To Join a Fantasy Hockey League?
Joining a fantasy hockey league is easy.

Choose Your Contest.
Select either Tournament or Head-2-Head.

Pick your Players.

Manage Your Team, Watch and Win.
Live alerts and player stats help you stay on top of your contest.
How to draft fantasy hockey?
5 Forwards (F)
3 Defense (D)
2 Goalies (G)
If a player’s position changes after the draft or contest creation, the player’s positions will be set when the contest is created (in Tournament contests) or at the start of the contest’s draft (Head-2-Head) and will stay that position for the duration of the contest. If a player’s position changes after the contest have been created then only new contests will have that player’s new position.
How does fantasy hockey scoring work?
Skaters | |
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Goal | 10 points |
Assist | 5 points |
Shots on Goal | 1 point |
Blocked shots | 1 point |
Plus/Minus
(the plus-minus is a multiple of this) i.e your player finishes with a -2 rating (-2x2 points) = -4 points |
2 points |
Goalies | |
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Save | 1 point |
Goals Against | -5 points |
Win | 10 points |
Shut Out | 5 points |
How To Manage Your Fantasy Hockey Team on OwnersBox
Tips for Fantasy Hockey Beginners
- Familiarize yourself with top players in the NHL. Learn which players are the best (or which ones you think are the best) and try to pick those. It seems like an obvious tip but doing some research before your first draft can go a long way.
- Utilize the OwnersBox queue feature. There’s nothing worse than running out of time when selecting your players in the draft and getting stuck with a random player when the auto-draft kicks in. By adding players to your queue ahead of time, the auto-draft feature will pick from that list, putting you in a better position to draft players you prefer.
- Know the difference between contests. Tournament and Head-2-Head contests are different in some pretty significant ways. Just like you want to research players in the league before the draft, you should also familiarize yourself with these two contests.