NHL Draft Combine: What did we learn?
6/8/202653 min
After last week’s NHL Scouting Combine, where the top draft-eligible prospects do fitness testing and sit for interviews with NHL teams, the guys break down what they learned from the event and if players like Gavin McKenna, Ivar Stenberg, Chase Reid, and Caleb Malhotra hurt or helped their case for draft night. Plus, a deep dive into Corey’s NHL Draft Confidential piece, where scouts and execs give anonymous quotes about the top prospects in the class, potential Dylan Larkin trade packages, and thoughts on a wild Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final, featuring a Mitch Marner natural hat trick, an improbable Carolina Hurricanes comeback, and ultimately a double overtime Vegas Golden Knights victory to take a 2-1 series lead.
Hosts: Max Bultman, Corey Pronman, and Scott Wheeler
Executive Producer: Chris Flannery
Producer: Chris Flannery
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First 90 secondsMax Bultman· Host0:00
[upbeat music] This is the Athletic Hockey Show Prospect series. [upbeat music] Hey, everybody. Max Boltman here alongside The Athletic's Corey Proman and Scott Wheeler for another episode of The Athletic Hockey Show Prospect series. I know we're not on our usual day this week, but it's for a good reason. The NHL Draft Combine was last week, and Scott and Corey, you guys were both there in Buffalo. Corey, let's start with this. Let's start broad. What did you learn over four or five days in Buffalo?
Corey Pronman· Host0:43
Well, other than, uh, I didn't learn this in Buffalo, but I learned that, uh, Scott looks very dapper today.
Max Bultman· Host0:49
That's right.
Scott Wheeler· Host0:50
I got a wedding to get to here. [laughs] We're recording between the, uh, the ceremony this morning and the, uh, the party tonight, so.
Corey Pronman· Host0:59
Uh, but a- at the combine, uh, I think everyone's main interest is the top couple of picks and in, and mainly how is this draft gonna go. And I don't think I can answer that today as we record this on, on June 7th precisely, but talking to a lot of people there, kind of getting a general sense of how people think it's gonna go. I think talking to a lot of, uh, scouts, executives, agents, I think most people expect the top four