Scott Wheeler
@scottcwheeler
National reporter (NHL Draft/prospects) at @TheAthletic. Author of On The Clock: Behind the Scenes with the Toronto Maple Leafs at the NHL Draft.
My annual top 100 drafted NHL prospects ranking is out at @TheAthletic! Featuring more than 50,000 words of analysis, player tiers, and more, all packaged in our user interface. The 2025 edition: nytimes.com/athletic/64696…
It’s a shame @m_bultman is away on vacation, or he could have gone down to Comerica Park to watch the best baseball team in the American League, the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Tigers walked Addison Barger to get to Ernie Clement... Two pitches later, Ernie Clement was flipping his bat. 4-1, #BlueJays #Ernesto
We’ve got a new full-time beat reporter on an OHL team, and he’s a Carleton J-School alum. Both of those things are welcome news. If you’re a Soo Greyhounds fan, give Janson a follow.
Introducing myself to Sault Ste. Marie! saultstar.com/opinion/meet-t…
Hello from Minneapolis, where the World Junior Summer Showcase starts tomorrow at Ridder Arena. The 2025-26 prospects calendar begins in earnest. Hlinka to follow and then we’ll be into rookie tournaments before we know it.
Gardiner MacDougall has been named an assistant coach for Canada’s 2026 World Junior team.
“A real life Ted Lasso” and a lawyer. The “Hollywood” story of Gardiner and Taylor MacDougall, hockey’s father-son, coach-GM duo. My @TheAthletic feature on two of the sport’s most interesting people: nytimes.com/athletic/63849…
The Canes have Aho, Jarvis, Ehlers, Blake, and Stankoven locked up into the 2030s at a laughably low combined number, some solid young players in Nadeau and Nikishin, and picks to play with. We’ll see if they can finally get over the hump, but they aren’t going anywhere.
This was a really awesome episode. The always fantastic and super smart @scottcwheeler joined us to talk Perreault, Morrow, the Rangers 2025 draft, top prospects and more! Then @iEricKohn break down the Kreider interview, and take questions! (The show is also two hours) Love you
🔈🔉🔊 New podcast! @JoeFortunatoBSB & @iEricKohn are joined by @scottcwheeler of @TheAthletic to break down the Rangers’ draft strategy, prospect development, and why Gabe Perreault and Scott Morrow could play big roles this season. They also dig into Chris Kreider’s amicable…
In the end, what is the final message of the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial? It could have been a reckoning, but it was something else. From @KatieJStrang and me — nytimes.com/athletic/64294…
I only hope that this won’t discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward, and that E.M. can find some form of peace on the other side of it all. Try to remember that she had nothing to gain by putting herself through months of anxious and insulting cross.
I spoke with Gavin McKenna one-on-one for @TheAthletic. On his decision, his summer, his home, and more, with insight into what makes him “special” from those around him: nytimes.com/athletic/65121…
If he could do it again, this is how @scottcwheeler believes the 2022 NHL Draft 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 have played out, given the benefit of hindsight. Do you agree? The full first round: nytimes.com/athletic/64855…
2022 NHL Draft re-draft: 1. MTL: Logan Cooley 2. NJD: Lane Hutson 3. ARI: Juraj Slafkovsky 4-32 (plus honourable mentions, updated projections, a full review of my ranking, and more at @TheAthletic): nytimes.com/athletic/64855…
Hockey job ⤵️
FULL TIME HOCKEY JOB-Plugging this one more time since I'm back from vacation: @FloHockey is seeking a versatile, passionate content creator to join our team at our HQ in Austin. Details: flosports.tv/careers/?ashby…
This feels relevant today.
I spent three days behind the scenes with MSU hockey in East Lansing. An inside look — from the classroom, the dressing room, the gym and the ice — at a program reborn: theathletic.com/5080274/2023/1…
Prospects I was wrong about, 2025 edition. Enjoy (but not too much). nytimes.com/athletic/64805…
Michigan State’s 2025-26 freshman class: Porter Martone Cayden Lindstrom Ryker Lee Eric Nilson Anthony Romani Austin Baker Melvin Strahl Matthew Lahey