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Prospects Unlimited 2023
In this year's edition of our annual Prospects Unlimited issue, we count down the top 100 21-and-under players in the world and focus in on each NHL team's youth with profiles, grades and a full listing of every player in the organization.
TOP 100 21 AND UNDER: 86-92
>86. REID SCHAEFER POS: LW | AGE: 20 MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS (AHL) | DRAFT: 32ND, 2022 (EDM) Schaefer, a prototypical power forward in the making and a key member of WHL Seattle’s championship squad, had two points in five games with the T-Birds on their way to the Memorial Cup final. He was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers but was traded to Nashville as one of the main pieces in the Mattias Ekholm deal. >87. GABRIEL D’AIGLE POS: G | AGE: 16 VICTORIAVILLE TIGRES (QMJHL) | DRAFT: 2025 With his 6-foot-4 frame and great technique, D’Aigle has the potential to be the next great Canadian netminder during what has become a fallow era. He’s already played internationally for Canada and has gotten off to a hot start in the ‘Q’ with Victoriaville after playing 21 games as a…
CHRIS SNOW: 1981-2023
CHRIS SNOW MIGHT have seemed an unlikely fit for the role of the most inspiring figure in the NHL. He didn’t play the game and never sought out the spotlight. He wasn’t a self-promoter, though his ascent in his professional life was rapid. He worked behind the scenes, not the loudest voice in the room but one that wielded outsized influence, even at the end when he couldn’t raise it above a whisper. Nonetheless, for those who worked with him in the Calgary Flames organization, he was both a friend and a hero. He was also considered the latter by thousands who never met him but listened to his wife Kelsie’s podcast, Sorry, I’m Sad. Snow, the Flames’ assistant GM, died Sept. 30 at 42. His heart stopped several days before,…
TOP 100 21 AND UNDER: 61. RYAN LEONARD
POS: RW | AGE: 18 BOSTON COLLEGE EAGLES (HE) | DRAFT: 8TH, 2023 (WSH) GETTING A TOP-10 PICK in the NHL draft is always a big deal for a franchise, given how much harder it is to assess talent among the later selections. But for the Washington Capitals, having the No. 8 overall selection in 2023 was quite the event: the franchise hadn’t picked in the top 10 since 2007, when they landed defenseman Karl Alzner fifth overall. “We’re usually drafting in the late first round, so it was exciting for our group,” said GM Brian MacLellan. “It’s a little more intense at the top of the draft, and a little more fun.” Ultimately, the Capitals landed right winger Ryan Leonard at the festivities in Nashville, but there was some sweat leading up to…
RIMOUSKI’S BLUE-CHIPPER
“WITH THE FIRST OVERALL pick in the 1998 NHL entry draft, the Tampa Bay Lightning is proud to select, from the Rimouski Oceanic of the Quebec League, Vincent Lecavalier!” There’s no doubt the gifted Lecavalier has been hearing those words in his dreams ever since May 10, the day it was determined Tampa Bay would have the first pick at the June 27 draft in Buffalo. “It was always my dream to play in the NHL, but I think that’s everyone’s childhood dream,” said Lecavalier, a 6-foot-4, 180-pound center who is ranked No. 1 among North American skaters by the NHL’s Central Scouting Bureau. “For me and David Legwand, I think it’s an important goal to be picked No. 1. He wants to go first overall and I want to go first…
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