Hockey Prospecting

[Giroux]

Old thread bumped, but if anyone is watching the U18s and wants to keep an eye on draft prospects, here are the Top 50 guys playing, their teams and jersey numbers. Draft Rank is from Elite Prospects' Consensus Rankings. Games are on NHL Network and TSN in Canada I believe.

Jersey # Name Draft Rank
USA
#34 Cole Eiserman (LW) 14
#17 Trevor Connelly (LW) 15
#23 Cole Hutson (D) 30
#6 EJ Emery (D) 31
#11 Kamil Bednarik (C) 50
#10 James Hagens (C) #1 Prospect for 2025 Draft

Finland
#19 Konsta Helenius (C/RW) 8
#12 Aron Kiviharju (D) 23
#32 Emil Hemming (RW) 24
#10 Veeti Väisänen (D) 49

Canada
#26 Liam Greentree (RW) 11
#24 Tij Iginla (F) 13
#21 Ryder Ritchie (F) 22
#5 Henry Mews (D) 27
#27 Charlie Elick (D) 29
#28 Cole Beaudoin (C) 32
#12 Maxim Massé (RW) 34
#14 Jett Luchanko (C) 35
#9 Gavin McKenna (F) #1 Prospect for 2026 Draft

Sweden
#20 Alfons Freij (D) 38
#4 Leo Sahlin Wallenius (D) 40
#11 Lucas Pettersson (C) 41

Czechia
#15 Tomas Galvas (D) 44

Here's the remaining schedule:
https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2024/wm18/schedule

[irv]

Originally Posted by Giroux

Old thread bumped, but if anyone is watching the U18s and wants to keep an eye on draft prospects, here are the Top 50 guys playing, their teams and jersey numbers. Draft Rank is from Elite Prospects' Consensus Rankings. Games are on NHL Network and TSN in Canada I believe.

Have you heard of this Ethan Belchetz kid yet? 6'5" 235 Lbs and just turned 16 3 weeks ago.
Can skate like the wind and has pretty sweet hands plus a wicked shot. I assume he'll be the hot topic in another couple years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmOKv95wPww

[cbeauch87]

Gavin McKenna is gonna go 1st overall in 2026. He is a freak. Also from my hometown, which is awesome. His cards will be pricey but I'll need a few!

[Giroux]

Originally Posted by irv

Have you heard of this Ethan Belchetz kid yet? 6'5" 235 Lbs and just turned 16 3 weeks ago.

Can skate like the wind and has pretty sweet hands plus a wicked shot. I assume he'll be the hot topic in another couple years.

Hadn't heard of him. #1 pick in the OHL draft, will have to keep him on my radar

[Giroux]

Bob McKenzie released his preseason top 20 for next year's draft

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/james-hagens-...raft-1.2176638

[SliderCutter14]

Decent list by TSN, I'd focus upon the teams that draft specific players as a hint of expected to baseline performance ratios. Past draft picks by the Oilers, Leafs, Canucks and Jets have had the best performance on a long-term scale even on later rounds.

Personally I stick to looking at midwest hockey if you opt for chasing after rookie card on a year by year basis, far better puck handling in high pressure playoff games. In terms of northeast specific teams, tracking hockey stats of Northeastern and BU are the preferred option but don't ignore some of the smaller less hockey focused schools as some teams drafted decent players that didn't get as much of a scouting profile by other big market teams. Having said that, may have practiced with some pre-NHL players in pickup games during the baseball off-season with an Ivy hockey ex(Ivy non-hockey vs upper tier NCAA is entertaining, always know pitchers are good hockey scorers)

[Giroux]

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/craig-s-list-...raft-1.2179536

Craig Button's draft ranking

[PejaD]

2025 draft class seems to be disappointing. Perhaps on par with 2022's

[Satan]

Originally Posted by PejaD

2025 draft class seems to be disappointing. Perhaps on par with 2022's

There's a lottttttt of depth to the 2022 1st round. They aren't all going to have a generational talent

[irv]

Originally Posted by Giroux

Hadn't heard of him. #1 pick in the OHL draft, will have to keep him on my radar

Not a bad start.

[MIRRABB]

Originally Posted by PejaD

2025 draft class seems to be disappointing. Perhaps on par with 2022's

Hagens is a very strong 1OA type player by any standard.

[Giroux]

Originally Posted by irv

Not a bad start.

I've been seeing his name pop up. Will be fun to follow

[Giroux]

Michael Misa off to a great start

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3JIHXi...ljaGFlbCBtaXNh

[mwash1983]

Originally Posted by irv

Have you heard of this Ethan Belchetz kid yet? 6'5" 235 Lbs and just turned 16 3 weeks ago.
Can skate like the wind and has pretty sweet hands plus a wicked shot. I assume he'll be the hot topic in another couple years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmOKv95wPww

8 points in 3 games, is he going to be compared to Lindros.

[Giroux]

Landon Dupont 4G-7A-11P in 7 GP for Everett in the WHL...as a defenseman...at 15 years old

https://www.eliteprospects.com/playe.../landon-dupont

[ZappBrannigan]

Top Prospect Trevor Zegras Young Gun now selling for $6. Buy!

[anusinha]

Originally Posted by ZappBrannigan

Top Prospect Trevor Zegras Young Gun now selling for $6. Buy!

He really needs a change of scenery

[Giroux]

Originally Posted by ZappBrannigan

Top Prospect Trevor Zegras Young Gun now selling for $6. Buy!

Officially time to be very worried about that guy

[brettmik59]

Yikes - hockey prospecting is hard. I leave that to the experts of this card forum.

[Ehawk89]

Youngs guns are dipping in general.