Hockey pool, keeper or yearly: run yours online
Free entry in 2026-27 (Beta), pay only for the options you pick.
Anything is possible here. Pool des Légendes is a hockey pool platform built in Quebec for people who take their league seriously. Whether you call it a hockey pool, an NHL pool, a fantasy hockey league or, in French, un pool de hockey, it is the same game: real NHL players, real results, and a general manager behind every team.
You can run a complete keeper pool on the site of your dreams: the salary cap, trades, waivers, a live draft, affiliated clubs, mail and chat. Entry is free in 2026-27 (Beta), and you pay only for the options you pick. And if you need more, ANYTHING is possible: modules like the Vestiaire and the Pige dans le Lac, special league rules, and rules written to measure for your league.
Only a few months ago, a platform of this calibre was unthinkable for a hockey pool. It was built by a hockey fan, not a programmer: we are pioneers of a new way to build a professional website, where the person who knows the game builds the tool of their dreams.
Cette page existe aussi en français : Pool de hockey keeper et annuel au Québec.
Three kinds of hockey pool, one platform
Most leagues fall into one of three formats, and all three run on the same engine here: nothing is rebuilt from scratch when a league switches.
- Yearly (redraft): everyone drafts from an empty roster every fall and starts the standings at zero.
- Keeper or dynasty: each manager protects a set number of players from one season to the next, so a trade made in October can still matter three years later.
- One-off: a pool with a start date and an end date you pick yourself, a month-long office pool or the second half of the season, with the number of games equalized so nobody starts with a head start.
A night in a manager's pool, in numbers
Say Marc runs a keeper league that scores two points per goal and one per assist. On a Tuesday night, his forward Nathan MacKinnon scores a goal and adds an assist: three points land on Marc's team total the moment the NHL confirms the play, not the next morning. By the first intermission Marc can already see his new total sitting next to every other manager's in the standings, each one pulled from the actual boxscore instead of a spreadsheet someone has to update by hand. That is the whole promise: what happens on the ice shows up in the pool without anyone doing arithmetic.
A live draft room
Every manager sits in the same room, round by round. A pick appears on everyone's screen at the same moment, with the clock, the open roster spots of the manager on the clock, and the full list of available players beside it. No spreadsheet, no group chat, nobody transcribing picks by hand at midnight.
A salary cap that actually computes
If your league uses a salary cap, payroll recalculates as players move. Contracts, cap hits, contract end dates, contract types and clauses live on each player and in your tables, so a cap league adds up instead of roughly adding up. Retained salary is supported, on both sides of a trade.
Trades with a permanent ledger
Trades happen in a room built for them: players, draft picks, conditions, retained salary. Every transaction is numbered and kept forever. A trade is never renumbered and never quietly rewritten, and that is what keeps a league's history worth reading five years later. Say Marc's team is over the cap: he sends a winger to Julie's team and keeps half the salary on his own books, Julie sends back a mid-round pick two years out. Both payrolls update the instant the trade clears, the retained slice sits on the correct side, and the picks change hands in the real draft order once that season arrives.
What comes with the pool
Mail and chat between managers come with every account. A demonstration pool and the NHL standings open without one. What is paid for are the modules a league turns on, per manager, per season: the salary cap, trades, waivers, the Vestiaire (nightly lineups) and the in-season Pige dans le Lac draft. Entry itself is free in 2026-27 (Beta). We charge for the options we built, never for the data.
Keeper, dynasty or yearly
In a yearly league (a redraft league) everyone starts from zero each fall. In a keeper league, managers protect players from one season to the next. A dynasty league keeps almost everything and drafts only newcomers. All three are the same product here: a league format is a setting, not a separate piece of software.
Farm teams, however you name them
Up to three affiliated clubs per team (farm team, taxi squad, reserve, minor league club) named by you, with their own roster spots, minimums and share of the cap. You decide whether their players count toward pool points and toward the cap.
NHL data through the day
Schedule, scores, nightly lineups, line combinations and power-play units, injuries and transactions follow into your pool, refreshed through the day. Minor-league seasons appear underneath each player, which matters a great deal when you are drafting prospects. When something is not confirmed, the site says so instead of inventing a number.
Frequently asked
Is the site available in English?
The application itself is in French, the language of the leagues it was built for. Hockey pool vocabulary is largely English to begin with (draft, trade, cap hit, waivers, roster), so anglophone managers get around comfortably. An English interface is on the list, without a promised date; we would rather say that than promise it.
What is a keeper league?
A league where each manager keeps a set number of players from one season to the next instead of starting over every fall. Your league's rules decide how many, how they are chosen, and for how long.
Can I try it without an account?
Yes. A demonstration pool opens without an account and without a password, with its teams, standings and players.
What does it cost?
Free entry in 2026-27 (Beta), pay only for the options you pick. Mail and chat come with your account. Pools created before September 27, 2026 keep their prices this season.
The application is free: the demonstration, the standings and the NHL statistics open without paying. What is paid for are the options we built, per manager, per season, and only if your league picks them: the salary cap, trades, waivers, the Vestiaire (nightly lineups), the in-season Pige dans le Lac draft and more. We charge for the options, never for the data. Prices are listed on the French page, Pool de hockey.
Can I run my office pool in English?
Yes. The screens are in French, but hockey pool vocabulary (draft, trade, cap hit, waivers) is largely English already, so your group can talk, trade and trash-talk in English while the site does the counting underneath.
Do I need to install an app?
No. Everything runs in a browser, on a phone, a tablet or a computer, so there is nothing to download and nothing to update before draft night.
Can I invite managers from outside Quebec?
Yes. A pool can hold up to 64 managers, from anywhere, as long as each one has an account.
Can I trade next year's draft picks in a keeper league?
Yes, in a keeper league. Draft picks from future seasons can move in a trade, and that is exactly where they start to carry real value: a bad season becomes a chance to stock up for the next one instead of a season to forget.
Is a salary cap required, or can my league skip it?
It is a setting, not a default. A league can run with a full salary cap, computed live as players move, or run without one at all if the group would rather draft and trade with no dollar limit.
See also
- Pool de hockey (français) : the main page, with prices
- Hockey pool glossary, French and English terms
- Keeper and dynasty leagues
- Yearly (redraft) leagues
- Salary cap leagues
- The live draft room
- Trades and the permanent ledger
- How to create a hockey pool
- Questions and answers
Build the pool of your dreams. Missing a rule? Anything is possible here: we write it for your league.