Scott Wheeler
National Reporter, NHL Draft/Prospects at The Athletic
National reporter (NHL Draft/prospects) at @TheAthletic. Author of On The Clock: Behind the Scenes with the Toronto Maple Leafs at the NHL Draft.
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5 days ago |
nytimes.com | Scott Wheeler
It was largely the same group. Denver Barkey, Easton Cowan, Sam O'Reilly, Jacob Julien, Sam Dickinson, Oliver Bonk, Landon Sim, William Nicholl, Henry Brzustewicz and Jared Woolley were all back and a year older. After starting the season in the AHL, they even got Kasper Halttunen back from the San Jose Sharks - a gift. That's not supposed to happen. Typically, teams that go to a Memorial Cup enter a rebuild the following year. Not these London Knights, though.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Scott Wheeler
This week, we're rolling out my 2025 NHL Draft package at The Athletic in advance of my final top 100 draft board. On Monday, we released my ranking of the top 15 overagers in the class. Today, we release scouting reports for the 30 prospects who just missed the cut for my board.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Scott Wheeler
Each year, overage players - or re-entry players - account for roughly one of the NHL Draft's seven rounds of picks. Accordingly, I do a separate ranking of overage players eligible for each draft class. This top-15 list (plus its nine honorable mentions) looks at the top overagers I think are eligible in the 2025 class. It's made up of 2006- and 2005-born players.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Scott Wheeler
Billy Sullivan talks about the Montgomery boys as like family to him at this point. Sullivan, who runs Sully Hockey, a video analysis and development business that works with some of hockey's top prospects, began working with Bryce Montgomery, a 2021 NHL Draft pick of the Carolina Hurricanes, before the pandemic. He started watching his younger brother Blake during the pandemic when Blake played at the Seacoast Performance Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 2021.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Corey Pronman |Scott Wheeler
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. After a coin toss, Pronman selected for the odd-numbered teams in the draft order and Wheeler picked for the even-numbered teams. A note that the mock was finished on Friday, before the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs was completed.
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