The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NHL Draft. Each year, in advance of the NHL Draft, The Athletic’s prospects writers Corey Pronman and Scott Wheeler solicit team-specific questions from our ...

Plus, a few names rising up the draft board and more quotes and insights gathered over the course of the season.

This year, though, there’s one problem: Pronman and Wheeler seem to agree on a whole lot of the top names in the class. Both have Erie Otters defenseman Matthew Schaefer as their No. 1 player, and ...

Gavin McKenna, the projected No. 1 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft and 2025 CHL Player of the Year, has committed to Penn State ...

With the draft fast approaching, there’s a lot to keep an eye on with the Canadiens. That said, at this point in the year, we all know what’s at stake for the Habs. And while no one can predict the ...

Today, we attempt a projection of how the first two rounds of the 2025 NHL Draft will take place, this time with our two NHL prospects writers, Corey Pronman and Scott Wheeler, alternating picks.

Scott Wheeler: I look at the conversation around Cristall similar to the one around Jordan Dumais last year. Dumais played to 109 points in 68 games in his draft year, was drafted 96th overall ...

One of The Athletic’s experts on NHL prospects, Scott Wheeler, spoke with Brodie Brazil this week. Wheeler said that while this year’s prospects aren’t quite of the same caliber as Macklin ...

The Athletic's Scott Wheeler has unveiled his final top 100 for the 2025 NHL Draft that features 51 CHL players. The list is led by Erie's Matthew Schaefer at no. 1 with Saginaw's Michael Misa at ...

Scott Wheeler on the railroad bridge in Newport, where years ago scores of anglers would stand fishing for salmon as they began heading up the Clyde River. Photo by Dirk Van Susteren.

Scott Wheeler covers the NHL draft and prospects nationally for The Athletic. Scott has written for the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Sun, the National Post, SB Nation and several ...

Scott Wheeler covers the NHL draft and prospects nationally for The Athletic. Scott has written for the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Sun, the National Post, SB Nation and several ...