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SportsMillions is the home of NHL Fantasy Pick’em, where you can play to win real money by making higher/lower predictions on the latest hockey games. On this page we are going to give you an in-depth guide to playing hockey pick’em, including all of the different over/under markets and the league average stats.
We will get things going with a simple guide to signing up with SportsMillions to play Hockey Pick’em.
Here is your step-by-step guide to creating an account with SportsMillions and getting started with NHL DFS Pick’em.
When you play Fantasy Hockey Pick’em at SportsMillions you get to choose from a number of different stats, not all of which will be available for every player. You will see one of the features below next to a number, and will have to pick whether you think the player or team will score higher or lower than that number.
To help you out, we are going to go through each of these fantasy stats, and give you an idea of the average scores per player position over the course of the past regular NHL season.
An assist in hockey is when a player contributes directly to the scoring of a goal by a teammate, without the defense breaking up the play in between the assist and the score. This table shows you that the center is likely to notch most of these, with more assists coming from the right than the left wing.
| Position | Average Assists per Game |
|---|---|
| Center | 0.31 |
| Right Wing | 0.30 |
| Left Wing | 0.28 |
| Defenseman | 0.27 |
The Goals stat is pretty self-explanatory. Clearly a defenseman is much less likely to score than a forward, but that’s not really telling you anything you don’t already know! During the 2023-2024 NHL regular season, the average goals per game by position were as follows:
| Position | Average Goals per Game |
|---|---|
| Center | 0.30 |
| Right Wing | 0.28 |
| Left Wing | 0.27 |
| Defenseman | 0.10 |
Points scored per game is the combination of goals and assists a player makes in a game. Each counts equally, so for example if a player scores 2 goals and makes 1 assist their points total is 3. Here is how the average points per game scores went last season, according to position:
| Position | Average Points per Game |
|---|---|
| Center | 0.61 |
| Right Wing | 0.58 |
| Left Wing | 0.55 |
| Defenseman | 0.37 |
A Power Play occurs when one team has more skaters on the ice than the other, normally because the second team has penalized players sitting on the bench waiting to come back on. Power Play Points are any goals or assists made during a power play, with both goals and assists counting for 1 apiece.
| Position | Average Power-Play Points per Game |
|---|---|
| Center | 0.15 |
| Right Wing | 0.14 |
| Left Wing | 0.13 |
| Defenseman | 0.10 |
No need to show you a table for this stat, as clearly goaltenders are the only players of interest for this stat. To give you a guide, we can tell you that during the 2023-2024 NHL regular season, goaltenders averaged approximately 25.52 saves per game.
During that same regular season, Lukáš Dostál of the Anaheim Ducks set a franchise record by making an incredible 55 saves in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on January 3, 2024.
A Shot on Goal is counted when a shot which would otherwise have gone into the net is blocked by a goaltender. Wides and shots blocked by a defenseman do not count towards this stat, and neither do shots which hit the frame of the goal.
| Position | Average Shots on Goal per Game |
|---|---|
| Center | 2.5 |
| Right Wing | 2.3 |
| Left Wing | 2.2 |
| Defenseman | 1.5 |
At SportsMillions you will find pick’em options for every regular and post-season game over the course of the NHL season. We’ve outlined above how to create your account and make your picks – and don’t forget that you can mix and match your pick’em sports, meaning you can include baseball, basketball, football and soccer picks alongside your hockey selections. Bear in mind though, that you can only add one player per hockey team to your list of selections.
Our team of US sports writers will have NHL previews for you ahead of all the big games, where they direct you towards the best pick’em picks for the game. One of the advantages of playing with SportsMillions is the market-leading 1,500x maximum payout for getting 12 from 12 selections correct.
Ross has been writing about sports for over a decade, spcecializing in the NFL, soccer and boxing. His written work has appeared on a number of online publications over that time.