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Scott Wheeler

Scott Wheeler

National Reporter, NHL Draft/Prospects at The Athletic - Toronto Bureau

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  • English
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theathletic.com

U18 worlds standouts and disappointments: Scott Wheeler’s risers and fallers - The Athletic

After 29 games in 11 days in Espoo and Vantaa, the 2024 IIHF U18 World Championship is over, with Canada winning gold. I was in Finland all tournament, splitting time between Metro Areena and Trio Areena. At the end of the event, my notebook had notes on 131 of the top prospects from the 2024, 2025 and 2026 drafts. Here are my standouts and risers and disappointments and fallers. Standouts and risers James Hagens (F, Team USA/2025 NHL Draft) What can you say, really? Hagens is now the U17 and U1…
over 1 year ago
theathletic.com

Canada defeats USA to capture U18 IIHF gold - The Athletic

ESPOO, FINLAND — Canada defeated USA 6-4 in the 2024 Under-18 IIHF Men’s World Championship. The game was a story of two halves. The U.S. controlled the first two periods of the game. They outshot Canada by a margin of nearly twenty shots and were up 3-2 through two periods. Then midway through the third period, Canadian winger Ryder Ritchie and a USA player were tied up in a battle along the boards and USA winger Trevor Connelly came in and threw a hard hit on Ritchie. The hit resulted in a fiv…
over 1 year ago
theathletic.com

Meet 'Robocop' Maveric Lamoureux, one of NHL Utah's top prospects -...

It’s noon on April 3, and just a week removed from a second shoulder surgery, Maveric Lamoureux is laughing on a phone call from his home in Quebec. “It’s my other shoulder now!” he says, chuckling. “I keep saying that I’ll be Robocop after this!” He has just returned from what he didn’t realize was his last trip to Arizona preceding , his season with the QMJHL-favorite Drummondville Voltigeurs now over. He’ll spend some time at home before rejoining his team, who he’ll follow from the stands on…
over 1 year ago
theathletic.com

Are teams going to make the same mistake twice with Cole Hutson? - ...

ESPOO, Finland — “Do you ever get nervous when Hutson’s walking the line as the last man back with a guy on his hip? Or are you just numb to it at this point?” It’s a question that could have just as easily been asked of Nick Fohr two years ago, when he was an assistant coach with USA Hockey’s 2004 age group at the NTDP and was registering 63 points in 60 games in advance of the selecting him with the 62nd pick in the 2022 NHL Draft. Advertisement Now, though, he’s the head coach of the 2006 a…
over 1 year ago
theathletic.com

How Sam Dickinson became one of the top prospects in the 2024 NHL D...

London Knights assistant coach Dylan Hunter will tell you that everything changed for his team in the middle of December. It’s not a coincidence, he’ll also tell you, that that’s when everything changed for Sam Dickinson, too. From Dec. 14 to Jan. 20, the Knights won 14 straight games and took over first place in the OHL standings. Around that time, they also lost their two first-round picks, defenseman Oliver Bonk and forward Easton Cowan, to the Canadian world junior team. Another of their top…
over 1 year ago
theathletic.com

Why Landon DuPont was granted exceptional status into the WHL: A 'n...

CALGARY — Calgary native Landon DuPont became just the second player ever to be granted exceptional status into the WHL on Monday. The decision, made by a Hockey Canada panel and announced jointly by WHL commissioner Dan Near and Hockey Canada senior vice president Scott Salmond, will allow the right-shot defenseman to play in the WHL as a 15-year-old next season. Advertisement He follows , who was the No. 1 selection in the 2020 WHL Bantam Draft. Dupont is the ninth player in CHL history to be…
over 1 year ago
theathletic.com

2024 NHL Draft ranking: Scott Wheeler's March top 64 prospects - Th...

Welcome to my March ranking of the top prospects eligible for the 2024 NHL Draft. This ranking includes full scouting reports on the top 64 prospects and packaged within our new user interface. It follows my , , and , and will be followed by an updated top 32 post-U18 worlds and my final top 100 (released in June). Advertisement The class of 2024 is led by Boston University center , a legitimate star forward prospect, but will be defined by both the quantity and quality of the defensemen at the…
almost 2 years ago
theathletic.com

Penguins prospect Owen Pickering still has plenty of room for growt...

Owen Pickering just wants — and needs — to get stronger. But one thing or another seems to keep standing in his way. It started with a growth spurt (or two, or three) that sprouted him from 5-foot-7 in his WHL draft year to 6-foot-4 in what felt like a matter of months. There was a time when he was getting taller so quickly that he’d show up to training sessions with his strength and conditioning coach Matt Asmundson “literally having growing pains.” Advertisement “Not the cliché, the actual thi…
almost 2 years ago
theathletic.com

2024 NHL prospect pool rankings: No. 2 Detroit Red Wings - The Athl...

Welcome to Scott Wheeler’s 2024 rankings of every organization’s prospects. You can find the complete ranking and more information on the criteria , as we count down daily from No. 32 to No. 1. The series, which includes in-depth evaluations and insight from sources on nearly 500 prospects, runs from Jan. 30 to Feb. 29. The Detroit Red Wings’ pool is led by half a dozen higher-end prospects and followed by legitimate depth in numbers right through to the end of the list. They don’t have a top-1…
almost 2 years ago
theathletic.com

Buffalo Sabres are No. 1 in 2024 NHL prospect pool rankings - The A...

Welcome to Scott Wheeler’s 2024 rankings of every organization’s prospects. You can find the complete ranking and more information on the criteria , as we count down daily from No. 32 to No. 1. The series, which includes in-depth evaluations and insight from sources on nearly 500 prospects, runs from Jan. 30 to Feb. 29. Advertisement Even with a young core already made up of , , , , and , a group that made them the No. 1-ranked pool in this countdown just two years ago, the have another wave…
almost 2 years ago
theathletic.com

2024 NHL prospect pool rankings: No. 3 Columbus Blue Jackets - The ...

Welcome to Scott Wheeler’s 2024 rankings of every organization’s prospects. You can find the complete ranking and more information on the criteria , as we count down daily from No. 32 to No. 1. The series, which includes in-depth evaluations and insight from sources on nearly 500 prospects, runs from Jan. 30 to Feb. 29. Advertisement Though they graduated (who never got to appear on this list), , and , and lost Liam Foudy to waivers, the hold as the third-ranked pool in the league for the sec…
almost 2 years ago