NHL Scouting Combine
2026 NHL Combine invites, separated from rankings.
The official NHL Scouting Combine list has 90 invitees: 56 forwards, 29 defensemen, and 5 goalies. Hockey Insights Draft uses this as a context filter and badge only. It is not a ranking source and it is not a sort order.
Invite list
The list below is stored from the official NHL.com combine article and linked invite-list PDF. Players are ordered by consensus rank where the local ranking export has one, then alphabetically. Use it to find players who earned event context, not to infer draft order.
| Consensus | Player | Pos | Region | Team / league |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Gavin McKenna Player board → | LW | NA | PENN STATE / BIG10 |
| #2 | Ivar Stenberg Player board → | LW | ITL | FROLUNDA / SWEDEN |
| #3 | Chase Reid Player board → | D | NA | SAULT STE. MARIE / OHL |
| #4 | Keaton Verhoeff Player board → | D | NA | NORTH DAKOTA / NCHC |
| #5 | Viggo Björck Player board → | C | ITL | DJURGARDEN / SWEDEN |
| #6 | Carson Carels Player board → | D | NA | PRINCE GEORGE / WHL |
| #7 | Tynan Lawrence Player board → | C | NA | BOSTON UNIVERSITY / H-EAST |
| #8 | Ethan Belchetz Player board → | LW | NA | WINDSOR / OHL |
| #9 | Daxon Rudolph Player board → | D | NA | PRINCE ALBERT / WHL |
| #10 | Ryan Lin Player board → | D | NA | VANCOUVER / WHL |
| #11 | Caleb Malhotra Player board → | C | NA | BRANTFORD / OHL |
| #12 | Adam Novotny Player board → | LW | NA | PETERBOROUGH / OHL |
| #13 | Alberts Smits Player board → | D | ITL | MUNCHEN / GERMANY |
| #14 | Malte Gustafsson Player board → | D | ITL | HV71 / SWEDEN |
| #15 | Oscar Hemming Player board → | LW | NA | BOSTON COLLEGE / H-EAST |
| #16 | Oliver Suvanto Player board → | C | ITL | TAPPARA / FINLAND |
| #17 | Elton Hermansson Player board → | RW | ITL | MODO / SWEDEN-2 |
| #19 | Xavier Villeneuve Player board → | D | NA | BLAINVILLE-BOISBRIAND / QMJHL |
| #20 | Juho Piiparinen Player board → | D | ITL | TAPPARA / FINLAND |
| #21 | Mathis Preston Player board → | RW | NA | VANCOUVER / WHL |
| #22 | Ilia Morozov Player board → | C | NA | MIAMI / NCHC |
| #23 | Marcus Nordmark Player board → | LW | ITL | DJURGARDEN JR. / SWEDEN-JR. |
| #26 | Alexander Command Player board → | C | ITL | OREBRO JR. / SWEDEN-JR. |
| #27 | Wyatt Cullen Player board → | LW | NA | USA U-18 NTDP / USHL |
| #28 | Brooks Rogowski Player board → | C | NA | OSHAWA / OHL |
| #29 | Maddox Dagenais Player board → | C | NA | QUEBEC / QMJHL |
| #30 | Ryan Roobroeck Player board → | LW | NA | NIAGARA / OHL |
| #31 | Liam Ruck Player board → | RW | NA | MEDICINE HAT / WHL |
| #32 | Jack Hextall Player board → | C | NA | YOUNGSTOWN / USHL |
| #33 | William Håkansson Player board → | D | ITL | LULEA / SWEDEN |
| #35 | Niklas Aaram-Olsen Player board → | LW | ITL | OREBRO JR. / SWEDEN-JR. |
| #37 | Adam Valentini Player board → | C | NA | MICHIGAN / BIG10 |
| #38 | Simas Ignatavicius Player board → | RW | ITL | GENEVE / SWISS |
| #39 | Casey Mutryn Player board → | RW | NA | USA U-18 NTDP / USHL |
| #40 | Markus Ruck Player board → | C | NA | MEDICINE HAT / WHL |
| #42 | Tobias Trejbal Player board → | G | NA | YOUNGSTOWN / USHL |
| #43 | Adam Goljer Player board → | D | ITL | TRENCIN / SLOVAKIA |
| #44 | Jaxon Cover Player board → | RW | NA | LONDON / OHL |
| #47 | Ryder Cali Player board → | C | NA | NORTH BAY / OHL |
| #48 | Giorgos Pantelas Player board → | D | NA | BRANDON / WHL |
| #49 | Beckham Edwards Player board → | C | NA | SARNIA / OHL |
| #50 | Pierce Mbuyi Player board → | LW | NA | OWEN SOUND / OHL |
| #51 | Victor Plante Player board → | LW | NA | USA U-18 NTDP / USHL |
| #52 | Samu Alalauri Player board → | D | ITL | PELICANS JR. / FINLAND-JR. |
| #53 | Adam Nemec Player board → | LW | NA | SUDBURY / OHL |
| #54 | Thomas Vandenberg Player board → | C | NA | OTTAWA / OHL |
| #56 | Jakub Vaněček Player board → | D | NA | TRI-CITY / WHL |
| #57 | Maksim Sokolovskii Player board → | D | NA | LONDON / OHL |
| #58 | Adam Andersson Player board → | C | ITL | LEKSAND JR. / SWEDEN-JR. |
| #60 | Brek Liske Player board → | D | NA | EVERETT / WHL |
| #61 | Luke Schairer Player board → | D | NA | USA U-18 NTDP / USHL |
| #62 | Alexander Bilecki Player board → | D | NA | KITCHENER / OHL |
| #64 | Chase Harrington Player board → | LW | NA | SPOKANE / WHL |
| #66 | Matias Vanhanen Player board → | LW | NA | EVERETT / WHL |
| #67 | Timofei Runtso Player board → | D | NA | VICTORIA / WHL |
| #69 | Ethan MacKenzie Player board → | D | NA | EDMONTON / WHL |
| #70 | Alessandro Di Iorio Player board → | C | NA | SARNIA / OHL |
| #72 | Vladimír Dravecký Player board → | D | NA | BRANTFORD / OHL |
| #73 | Brady Knowling Player board → | G | NA | USA U-18 NTDP / USHL |
| #75 | Charlie Morrison Player board → | D | NA | QUEBEC / QMJHL |
| #78 | Beckett Hamilton Player board → | C | NA | RED DEER / WHL |
| #80 | Jonah Sivertson Player board → | RW | NA | PRINCE ALBERT / WHL |
| #85 | Rudolfs Berzkalns Player board → | C | NA | MUSKEGON / USHL |
| #86 | Måns Gudmundsson Player board → | D | ITL | FARJESTAD JR. / SWEDEN-JR. |
| #88 | Liam Lefebvre Player board → | C | NA | CHICOUTIMI / QMJHL |
| #90 | Landon Amrhein Player board → | LW | NA | CALGARY / WHL |
| #91 | Jonas Lagerberg Hoen Player board → | RW | ITL | LEKSAND JR. / SWEDEN-JR. |
| #94 | Landon Nycz Player board → | D | NA | UMASS / H-EAST |
| #95 | Cooper Williams Player board → | C | NA | SASKATOON / WHL |
| Unranked | Benjamin MacBeath | D | NA | CALGARY / WHL |
| Unranked | Blake Zielinski Player board → | C | NA | DES MOINES / USHL |
| Unranked | Cole Zurawski Player board → | RW | NA | OWEN SOUND / OHL |
| Unranked | Colin Fitzgerald Player board → | C | NA | SAULT STE. MARIE / OHL |
| Unranked | Filip Novák Player board → | LW | ITL | SPARTA JR. / CZECHIA-JR. |
| Unranked | Jake Gustafson Player board → | C | NA | PORTLAND / WHL |
| Unranked | Jan Larys Player board → | G | NA | DRUMMONDVILLE / QMJHL |
| Unranked | Jayden Kurtz Player board → | D | NA | ROGERS HIGH-MN |
| Unranked | Jeffrey (JP) Hurlbert | LW | NA | KAMLOOPS / WHL |
| Unranked | Kayden Lemire Player board → | RW | NA | PRINCE GEORGE / WHL |
| Unranked | Layne Gallacher Player board → | C | NA | GUELPH / OHL |
| Unranked | Lincoln Kuehne Player board → | D | NA | ARIZONA STATE / NCHC |
| Unranked | Michal Orsulak Player board → | G | NA | PRINCE ALBERT / WHL |
| Unranked | Nicholas Bogas | D | NA | USA U-18 NTDP / USHL |
| Unranked | Simon Katolicky Player board → | LW | ITL | TAPPARA JR. / FINLAND-JR. |
| Unranked | Thomas Bleyl | D | NA | MONCTON / QMJHL |
| Unranked | Tobias Tvrznik Player board → | G | NA | WENATCHEE / WHL |
| Unranked | Tyus Sparks Player board → | C | NA | SPOKANE / WHL |
| Unranked | Vilho Vanhatalo Player board → | RW | ITL | TAPPARA JR. / FINLAND-JR. |
| Unranked | Wesley Royston Player board → | RW | NA | OWEN SOUND / OHL |
| Unranked | Zach Olsen | RW | NA | SASKATOON / WHL |
Why this page exists
Users often search for the combine list separately from rankings. This page makes the event list readable, linkable, and quotable while preserving the product boundary: combine invite status is a yes/no context signal, not a scouting rank.
Reference links: NHL.com combine article and official invite-list PDF.