We’re into the sixth week of the 2024-25 National Hockey League (NHL) fantasy season. We have a handful of players to target in trades heading into the weekend and the upcoming week, while there are a couple of overachievers who you need to try and package while their fantasy values are at their peak.
NHL Fantasy Hockey Trade Advice (Week 6)
Buy
Max Domi has been horrific lately, going scoreless in each of his past 13 games with a -6 rating. He is still averaging 15:41 time on ice (TOI) per game, and head coach Craig Berube knows what the veteran can do. He also has eight penalty minutes (PIM) in the span, which is his calling card. Don’t be scared away from the fact he was placed on injured reserve (IR) this week. The move is retroactive to November 16, so he’ll be eligible to play as soon as Sunday against the Utah Hockey Club. It’s more of a bookkeeping thing.
Anyway, Domi has been nicked up a little with a lower-body injury, toughing it out due to several others missing. The team finally pulled the plug and gave him a rest. He should come back strong and is a good, cheap trade target in deeper fantasy pools. Domi had nine goals and 47 points with 118 PIM in his first season in Toronto last season. He had 20 goals and 56 points in 2022-23 splitting time between the Chicago Blackhawks and Dallas Stars. He’ll get plenty of points when he is healthy. Get in on the ground floor while he is rostered in roughly one-third of all leagues or trade for him in deeper pools.
Kevin Fiala is rostered in 85-90% of all fantasy pools. Managers are likely getting impatient with him lately. You could get the veteran sniper in a good deal. He is scoreless in the past six games while posting a -3 rating in the awful span. He looked like he was going to start November strong, going for two goals and four points with two power-play points in the first three outings of the month. However, he hasn’t registered a point in his last six games.
He managed five goals and eight points with five points on the man advantage in 10 October outings, too. Fiala has managed 54 shots on goal (SOG) across 19 games and he usually has a good nose for the goal. The time is now to acquire him before he starts racking up points in bunches and his price tag shoots up.
Sell
The Kings have been getting tremendous play from Trevor Moore lately, as he has lit the lamp twice in the past nine games while going for 10 points. He also has a respectable +4 rating during that span, while racking up a little bit of time on the power play, although he hasn’t scored on the man advantage in this red-hot 10-game span.
After scoring in back-to-back games against the Columbus Blue Jackets at home and the Calgary Flames on the road from November 11-13, Moore hasn’t scored in the past three games. But, he has stayed hot with three helpers and eight total shots on goal in the past two outings. That goal against Columbus was a short-handed one.
Remember, Moore had just one goal and three points in 11 games in October. The 29-year-old California native exploded for 31 goals and 57 points last season, so November hasn’t been an anomaly. He has 50-60-point potential. Still, the time is now to package him in a deal, as he is averaging better than a point per game over a solid stretch.
The Sharks have been pesky. One of the reasons for the team’s feisty play is its young players like Jake Walman. He has racked up two goals and 12 points and a +2 rating with a point on the power play. In deeper fantasy pools, he can help out with blocked shots (27) and hits (16). One thing to note is his +2 rating. He is on the Sharks, and this is a team expected to tail off. They’re playing well, but right now might be his highest plus/minus rating of the season.
It won’t be his fault he tails off in the category, but it’s inevitable, as this team is not expected to compete for a postseason spot and is more of a 60-70 point kind of team. Highlight his points per game in the past few weeks and trade him for a player who might not be playing as well lately, but who has a better history and brighter outlook in plus/minus rating.
