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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.
ANAHEIM DUCKS
IN TERMS of a hockey education, Nico Myatovic is in a perfect spot. The 6-foot-2, 182-pound left winger has spent his WHL career with the Seattle Thunderbirds, who won the league title last season with a loaded squad that featured NHL prospects such as Kevin Korchinski (CHI), Brad Lambert (WPG) and Dylan Guenther (ARI). With Myatovic being in his draft year, he was more than happy to take advantage of his surroundings, especially since the team had gone far in his rookie year, losing in the WHL final to the Edmonton Oil Kings. “My coaches in Seattle were huge for my development,” he said. “I can’t thank them enough. Plus, the team I was on was so strong. Being able to practise and play with those guys every day and learn…
MULLER TIME IN BOSTON
MOMENTS AFTER BEING selected third overall in the PWHL draft by Boston, Alina Muller was overcome by emotion. One of the world’s top players, Muller couldn’t hide her joy, nor relief, at joining the best players on the planet in the PWHL. “I was overwhelmed…that it meant so much to me and that I was so emotional,” Muller said. “It was a long time coming, and this was the first moment I realized, ‘I think I can make a living playing hockey.’” Muller, 25, recently finished a storied NCAA career at Northeastern, where she was a five-time finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award as the NCAA’s top player, and she was named Hockey East’s player of the year three times. In total, Muller scored 98 goals and 254 points in 159 games…
A NEW ERA OF ORANGE
EVERYONE CONNECTED to the team was holding their collective breath. This was going to be their moment of truth. Would the Philadelphia Flyers, a team steeped in tradition and historical success, actually use a high first-round draft pick on a prospect they knew would not be playing in the NHL for several years? Could they go against their usual conventional wisdom of selecting a player who figured to help them quite soon, the way 2015 first-rounders Ivan Provorov and Travis Konecny did when they joined the NHL in 2016-17 as 19-year-olds? This scene unfolded on June 28, the first night of the 2023 NHL draft at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, and new GM Daniel Briere had a big decision to make. Should he go for a prototypical Flyer such as, say, the…
TOP 100 21 AND UNDER: 6-11
>6. MACK CELEBRINI POS: C | AGE: 17 BOSTON UNIVERSITY TERRIERS (HE) | DRAFT: 2024 The Terriers freshman is an elite center who makes those around him better, and he’s the front-runner to go first overall in the 2024 NHL draft. Last season in the USHL, Celebrini was named rookie of the year, forward of the year and player of the year – something that had never been done before. >7. LOGAN COOLEY POS: C | AGE: 19 ARIZONA COYOTES (NHL) | DRAFT: 3RD, 2022 (ARI) Cooley was set on returning to the NCAA before a change of heart late in the summer, and the Gophers’ loss is the Coyotes’ gain. He dazzled at the University of Minnesota last season thanks to his stellar playmaking ability, and Cooley’s two-way acumen sees him destined to center one of…
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