🚨 As promised… the RyanMaScouting #2026NHLDraft Guide is now live 🚨 📊 170+ prospect reports 🏒 500+ games tracked 📈 125+ analytics cards Completely free! Let me know your thoughts & thank you all for your support this year! Link below 👀⬇️ 🔗: ryanmascouting.substack.com/…

I remember a lot of skepticism when I released my 2026 NHL Draft Guide & had future #NYR Alberts Smits as my #1 ranked D over Reid/Carels To me, it was a no-brainer. His game vs 🇺🇸 at the Olympics remains the most impressive single game performance I watched in the 25/26 season

The 2022 NHL Draft is when I started writing full profiles on players for the first time, but #Sabrehood Noah Ostlund was one of MY GUYS Had him ranked Top 10 in the class, behind only Wright and Cooley at C & our model @T2TProspects viewed him as an absolute stud in his D-0 😮‍💨

Victor Eklund has ALWAYS been that dude, even since his D-1 U20 Nationell ✅ HockeyAllsvenskan ✅ SHL ✅ AHL ✅ NHL ✅ #Isles

The #LGRW spent a 4th Rounder on Amadeus Lombardi in 2022. After 3 years trying to break through Detroit’s farm system he’s finally left for the #NJDevils D-0: A- in OHL 🇨🇦 D+1: S!!!! in OHL 🇨🇦 D+2 to D+4: AHL Very intrigued to see how he performs this year as an NHLer 👀

Not a whole lot has gone right the last few years for the #LGRW but man 2023 7th Rounder Emmitt Finnie has defied all expectations D-0: C- in WHL 🇨🇦 D+1: B in WHL 🇨🇦 D+2: A in WHL 🇨🇦 D+3: Full Time NHLer This is literally the best case scenario for a 7th Round Pick 😳

Honestly #FlaPanthers 2022 5th Rounder Sandis Vilmanis 🇱🇻 has been one of Florida’s best development stories of the last few years D-0: C+ in U20 🇸🇪 D+1: B+ in OHL 🇨🇦 D+2: A+ in OHL 🇨🇦 D+3: Goes pro in the AHL D+4: Makes NHL debut D+5: Becomes NHL regular Not bad at Pick 157 👀

This situation always intrigued me #Blackhawks clearly saw something they liked from the 20 y/o; they spent a 6th Rounder on him after just a 0.46 PPG year in 2022 due to some great underlying numbers They then decided he wasn’t worth keeping around & let TB get him for free…

I was a BIG Isaac Howard fan when TBL drafted him in 2022 He struggled massively in his D+1 for the University of Minnesota-Duluth but found his game the two years after with MSU Still wondering when the #LetsGoOilers will give the kid a chance with all their injuries right now

The fact that #Blackhawks D Kevin Korchinski hasn’t become a stud makes me sad Despite the 5v5 primary point production being a weakness, Korchinski was a model favourite in his DY as a Top 4 D in the WHL I really wonder what he’d look like if he’d gotten more AHL time first

Adding this guy for @MajorMoose_ cause I know he’s a #Canucks fan favourite! Kudryavtsev probably doesn’t go in the 7th Round in 2022 if he was a few inches taller. Top 30 D in the OHL that year Took a step forward in his D+1 before plateauing in his D+2 and then going pro

#Leafs 2023 1st Rounder Easton Cowan’s breakout started at the end of that year with an elite OHL Playoffs While his overall season suggested a mostly average D-0, it came as no surprise when he carried on his playoff success into consecutive S-Tier seasons in his D+1, D+2 & D+3

While many #LetsGoOilers fans lamented the Schaefer signing pick (Wallstedt was a possibility) he actually was one of the best forwards in the WHL that year Unfortunately his underlyings took a step back in his D+1, & he’s been trying to figure it all out with NSH ever since

There was much debate in 2022 about who the #GoHabsGo should’ve taken While Wright was amazing in the OHL, Slafkovsky was the 2nd best U22 Forward in 🇫🇮 that year, playing in a men’s league Add that to an outstanding Olympic performance, there was no doubt he deserved to go #1

25/26 Patterson qualified for a full player card! The #Canucks 2024 4th Rounder has always been a reliable OHL player There hasn’t been that huge jump in development Canucks fans were hoping for but there’s a solid AHL player who could earn a cup of coffee in the NHL someday

#GoSensGo Tyler Boucher was a reach in his DY (not in the dataset unfortunately) but he split his time between the NCAA and OHL in his D+1 He was a fine College and OHL player in his D+1 but certainly fell short of expectations given his draft pedigree as a Top 10 Pick in 2021

#FlyTogether Beckett Sennecke shot up draft boards in the weeks before the 2024 NHL Draft but the model backs it up Finished as a Top 10 F in the OHL in his draft year & that was accounting for a slow first half! He’s made Anaheim look like geniuses for taking him ever since