Today is the NHL trade deadline, but many fantasy leagues have already seen their deadlines come and go.

If you want to improve your squad at this stage of the fantasy season, all you’re stuck with is the waiver wire. Of course, the deeper your league, the tougher it is to find productive players. Which makes sense. If the players were productive, they would already be on a roster.

Below are 10 players who are owned in fewer than 10% of Yahoo leagues. Before we get to that list, I wanted to include players that were available in leagues that may not be as deep. So here are a quick 10 players, in alphabetical order, that are available in 10 to 40% of Yahoo leagues as of Sunday night that would be worth a pickup:

Jake Allen, 25% owned: Back-to-back starts, and hasn’t had the benefit to play under new head coach Marty St. Louis. He’s easily the top Montreal netminder until Carey Price is back.

Matt Boldy, 26% owned: He has 24 points in 29 games as a rookie.

Lawson Crouse, 25% owned: Six goals, four assists, 15 shots and 24 hits in his last eight games.

Nico Hischier, 30% owned: He has 18 points in his last 14 games.

Anthony Mantha, 37% owned: He has five points, 26 shots and 12 hits in his last seven games.

Rasmus Ristolainen, 36% owned: In his last seven games, he has three points, 10 PM, 27 hits and 24 blocked shots.

Dylan Strome, 25% owned: On top line with Patrick Kane, has eight goals, six assists, 25 shots and 73 faceoff wins in his last nine games.

Tim Stuetzle, 38% owned: One of the top players in March with 10 points in his last nine games, including six on the power play.

Robert Thomas, 28% owned: Once again healthy and back in the lineup, and almost a point-per-game player this season.

Kailer Yamamoto, 10% owned: Seven points in his last five games while playing with Connor McDavid at even-strength and getting some power-play time.

Now on to the list of players owned in fewer than 10% of Yahoo leagues.

10. Nicolas Meloche, 0% owned

Meloche is the first of two players on this list who is available in 100% of Yahoo leagues. However, Meloche is only productive for hits. Meloche has 92 hits in 32 games, but he’s now a regular in the Sharks’ lineup, not missing a game since February. He has 32 hits in nine games in March, along with three points and 14 blocked shots. If your league doesn’t include hits, then keep Meloche on the waiver wire.

9. Jordan Greenway, 3% owned

Greenway has not developed the way many expected, but if you’re a fan of the 80/20 rule, then he still has a couple more seasons before hitting his potential. The 80/20 rule states that forwards between 5’10 and 6’2, or between 171 and 214 pounds need 200 NHL regular season games to start reaching their potential. Players smaller or bigger than those height/weight guidelines tend to take 400 games to hit their breakout threshold. Greenway is 6’6 and 231 pounds, and has 257 career games. He had 14 points in his first 41 games before missing a few games with an upper-body injury. In the six games since getting back into the lineup, he has played at least 15:15 minutes in five of them, to go along with four points, including three in his last three. He also has six shots in each of his last two contests. He already has value in leagues with PIM and hits, so any offense he can provide is a fun bonus.

8. Trent Frederic, 0% owned

Fredric is normally only worth the pickup in leagues with peripheral categories, and even then, he’s a borderline add. However, Frederic is starting to see more ice time over the last 15 games or so. From October 16 to February 9, Frederic played 24 games and had five points, 29 PIM, 29 shots, 47 hits while averaging 10:13 per night. Since February 10, Frederic had played 18 games and averaged 13:13 per contest. He has eight points in his last eight games.

7. Derick Brassard, 2% owned

It will be interesting to see if Brassard gets a boost in ice time with Claude Giroux now in Florida, but there’s no hiding the fact that Brassard has been surprisingly productive over the last few weeks. He has five points in his last seven games to go along with 14 shots, 17 hits and 46 faceoff wins. He is averaging 16:11 per night and 2:59 with the man advantage during this streak. Before that, he averaged 13:46 per night, 2:07 on the power play.

6. Max Domi, 6% owned

If Domi is traded to a contender today, you’ll see his ownership at least triple within the next 24 hours. The soon-to-be UFA has eight points in his last 10 games. In that timeframe, he also has nine PIM and three power-play points. Unfortunately, his shot rate (only 13 in those 10 games) is still too low, and he doesn’t take faceoffs anymore. It would be a smart move to grab him before a potential trade that would see his value spike and hope that he can become even more productive.

5. Barrett Hayton, 1% owned

It seems like forever ago that Hayton was a much-hyped prospect, so it’s easy to forget Hayton is only 21 years old. Despite the issues with playing time over his first few years, he’s been dynamite in the last month or so and has six points in his last seven games. Strangely enough, his uptick in production has come when he was removed from the power play altogether. In his last 12 games, he has nine points to go along with 18 shots, 20 hits and 66 faceoff wins while averaging 14 minutes per night. For comparison, he had only six points in his first 28 games.

4. Rem Pitlick, 1% owned

Pitlick has been the best waiver wire pickup this season, and it’s not even close. He has been excellent in Montreal, especially since Marty St. Louis took over as coach. Pitlick has 13 points in 17 games under St. Louis, but it’s the last eight games that Pitlick has shone as his ice time has skyrocketed. In those eight games, he has nine points to go along with five hits, five blocked shots and 34 faceoff wins. His ice time in those games is 18:44, with 3:17 on the power-play.

3. Logan Thompson, 3% owned

Thompson has started three of the last four games for the Knights and should continue to be the main guy going forward as Laurent Brossoit hasn’t been an effective netminder lately. Of course, this all hinges on the health of Robin Lehner. Rumours started swirling on the weekend that Lehner was dealing with a fracture, so Lehner had to Tweet on the weekend that it wasn’t true. Of course, rumours occur when a team is so notoriously tight-lipped about their players. If Lehner is out for any length of time, Thompson is the one to be rewarded with starts.

2. Anthony Beauvillier, 9% owned

On February 28, I wrote a column about the top 10 players to trade for in keeper leagues. I wrote that “This is an excellent time to grab the 24-year-old player. He has a habit of starting slow, so he may be cheaper now than he will be in a few weeks when/if he heats up.” Since then, Beauviller’s stat line: 11 games, nine points, 29 shots and three power-play points. This is a normal annual thing with Beauvillier, however, many of the Islanders are playing much better the last few weeks. In Yahoo leagues that count goals, assists, plus/minus, power-play points, shots and hits, eight Islanders are in the top 100 over the past two weeks. Noah Dobson is the only one that is owned in more than half of Yahoo leagues, so almost any Islander would be a smart pickup.

1. Erik Brannstrom, 1% owned

Now that Thomas Chabot is out for the rest of the season with a fractured hand, the door is open once again for Brannstrom to prove he should be given a bigger role. In the last three games without Chabot, Brannstrom is averaging 23:47 per night with 3:22 of that with the man advantage. In the 20 games before the injury, Brannstrom was averaging 18:21 per night with 1:37 on the power play. However, this might last only until Jake Sanderson is finished playing university hockey and he makes the team. At that point, the Sens may prefer to see what Sanderson can bring.