Corey Pronman

3 days ago | nytimes.com | Corey Pronman |Scott Wheeler

Each year, in advance of the NHL Draft,The Athletic’s prospects writers Corey Pronman and Scott Wheeler solicit team-specific questions from our pool of beat writers. Consider it our experts’ pre-draft news conference. This year, questions from a dozen different teams were submitted. Here are their answers.

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Scott Wheeler |Corey Pronman

This season, The Athletic’s prospects writers Scott Wheeler and Corey Pronman set out to do something ambitious: pull off a 2025 NHL Draft player poll similar to the player polls our staff conduct in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB. In the fall, they settled on 10 questions — three on the record and seven anonymous — and spent the season gathering as many responses as possible.

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Scott Wheeler |Corey Pronman

This season, The Athletic’s prospects writers Scott Wheeler and Corey Pronman set out to do something ambitious: pull off a 2025 NHL Draft player poll similar to the player polls our staff conduct in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB. In the fall, they settled on 10 questions — three on the record and seven anonymous — and spent the season gathering as many responses as possible. By year’s end, 50 of the top prospects in the 2025 NHL Draft class were surveyed for our inaugural NHL Draft player poll.

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Scott Wheeler |Corey Pronman

This season, The Athletic’s prospects writers Scott Wheeler and Corey Pronman set out to do something ambitious: pull off a 2025 NHL Draft player poll similar to the player polls our staff conduct in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB. In the fall, they settled on 10 questions — three on the record and seven anonymous — and spent the season gathering as many responses as possible. By year’s end, 50 of the top prospects in the 2025 NHL Draft class were surveyed for our inaugural NHL Draft player poll.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Scott Wheeler |Max Bultman |Corey Pronman

By Corey Pronman, Scott Wheeler and Max BultmanEach year around this time at The Athletic, we like to run a series of pieces in which our two NHL Draft experts, Corey Pronman and Scott Wheeler, debate the draft’s spiciest topics. It’s a way to dig deeper into the questions that could very well shape the draft when it kicks off on June 27, and to consider the multitude of factors and perspectives teams must weigh in making these all-important decisions.