NHL Central Scouting released its final rankings ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft, which is slated for June 26 and 27 at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y.
In total, 11 New Englanders, along with a slew of others who have ties to the region, made the final rankings.
That's an increase on last season, when only seven locals made the final rankings. Of those seven, four were drafted. Current Harvard forward Richard Gallant (Concord, Mass.) was left off, but was taken in the seventh round by the San Jose Sharks.
Getting ranked by NHL Central Scouting is nice, but it's no guarantee that a player will be picked. The rankings give the public an idea of where players slot ahead of the draft. For NHL teams, it's another important resource.
NHL Central Scouting divides players into four categories: North American skaters, North American goalies, international skaters and international goalies. It's no secret that a lot more players are ranked than can be drafted.
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The rankings change throughout the season. Here's how things looked at the midterm, while this was the preliminary list.
Let's dive into the final rankings.
New England skaters on the list
- Round 1, No. 24: Casey Mutryn | Norwell, Mass. | Boston College commit
- Round 2, No. 63: Rian Chudzinski | Needham, Mass. | Boston University commit
- Round 3, No. 72: Niko Tournas | Redding, Conn. | UNH commit
- Round 4, No. 101: Myles Brosnan | Winchester, Mass. | Harvard commit
- Round 4, No. 104: Will Manchuso | Concord, Mass. | Dartmouth commit
- Round 4, No. 115: Brian McFadden | Holbrook, Mass. | Northeastern commit
- Round 5, No. 139: Justin Graf | Lincoln, Mass. | Harvard commit
- Round 6, No. 166: Cooper Cleaves | Riverside, Conn. | Dartmouth
- Round 6, No. 192: Kaiden Donia | Townsend, Mass. | Quinnipiac commit
- Round 7, No. 203: Jack Galanek | Hopkinton, Mass. | UMass
New England goalies on the list
- No. 20: Jacoby Weiner | Riverside, Conn. | Harvard commit
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Skaters with local ties on the list
- Round 1, No. 6: Caleb Malhotra | Boston University commit
- Round 1, No. 7: Tynan Lawrence | Boston University
- Round 1, No. 11: Oscar Hemming | Boston College
- Round 1, No. 17: Tommy Bleyl | Cushing alum
- Round 1, No. 19: Egor Shilov | Boston University commit
- Round 1, No. 25: Ryder Cali | Harvard commit
- Round 1, No. 30: Rudolfs Berzkalns | Boston College commit
- Round 2, No. 35: Thomas Vandenberg | Providence College commit
- Round 2, No. 38: Liam Lefebvre | Trinity-Pawling | Vermont commit
- Round 2, No. 39: Charlie Morrison | UConn commit
- Round 2, No. 40: Maksim Sokolovskii | Maine commit
- Round 2, No. 45: Luke Schairer | Mount St. Charles | Boston University commit
- Round 2, No. 51: Blake Zielinski | Providence College commit
- Round 2, No. 55: Landon Nycz | UMass
- Round 2, No. 60: Caelan Joudrey | Quinnipiac commit
- Round 3, No. 87: Oleg Kulebiakin | UMass commit
- Round 3, No. 88: Dylan Dean | Mount St. Charles | Maine commit
- Round 3, No. 90: Yaroslav Bryzgalov | Merrimack commit
- Round 4, No. 98: Olivers Murnieks | Boston College commit
- Round 4, No. 102: Aleksei Vlasov | UConn commit
- Round 4, No. 105: Bradiy Wassilyn | Boston University commit
- Round 4, No. 110: Callum Croskery | Boston College commit
- Round 4, No. 111: Alexandre Taillefe | UMass commit
- Round 4, No. 112: Charlie Puglisi | Winchendon
- Round 5, No. 141: Brady Murnane | Winchendon alum
- Round 5, No. 147: Andrei Molgachev | UConn commit
- Round 5, No. 148: Nathan Amidovski | UConn commit
- Round 5, No. 152: Joe Salandra | Brunswick | Harvard commit
- Round 5, No. 155: Cam Chartrand | Boston College commit
- Round 6, No. 174: Simon-Xavier Cyr | Merrimack commit
- Round 6, No. 175: Leo Laschon | Northeastern commit
- Round 7, No. 196: Weston Cameron | UMass commit
- Round 7, No. 202: Colin Feeley | Salisbury alum | Harvard commit
- Round 7, No. 204: Jack Torr | Governor's Academy alum | UConn commit
- Round 7, No. 205: Andrew Robinson | Providence College commit
- Round 7, No. 209: Ethan Sturgis | Dartmouth commit
- Round 7, No. 223: Aiden Young | UMass Lowell commit
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Goalies with local ties on the list
- No. 1: Brady Knowling | Boston University commit
- No. 3: Tobias Trejbal | UMass commit
- No. 16: Jack Parsons | Providence College
- No. 21: Neilan Johnson | Hotchkiss | Northeastern commit
- No. 22: Elliot Lennon | Deerfield | Brown commit
- No. 30: Cash Cruitt | Quinnipiac commit
- No. 32: Maksim Corovic | Cushing alum
- No. 33: Ryan Cameron | Boston College commit
- No. 34: Robert Leonardo Henriquez | UNH commit
