Author Archives: Josh Tessler

The 2025 IIHF U18 World Championship is set to begin, offering a premier stage to evaluate top draft-eligible prospects from around the globe. This post takes a closer look at each participating nation, highlighting key players, positional strengths, and overall team outlooks. From perennial powerhouses like Canada and Sweden to rising programs like Slovakia andContinue reading “2025 IIHF U18 World Championship Preview”

Alexander Appleyard, Gray Matter, Ben Jordan, SpokedZ, Chris Ford, Josh Tessler, Austin Garret, Iván Ortiz, Thomas Gagné, Tom Watson and Dan Haurin combined their draft rankings and put together the official Smaht Scouting 2025 NHL Draft Spring Rankings. #1 – Michael Misa – C/LW – Saginaw Michael Misa holds the same spot in our 2025Continue reading “Spring 2025 NHL Draft Rankings”

Alexander Appleyard, Gray Matter, Ben Jordan, SpokedZ, Chris Ford, Austin Garret, Iván Ortiz, Thomas Gagné, Tom Watson and Dan Haurin combined their draft rankings and put together the official Smaht Scouting 2025 NHL Draft Preliminary Rankings. #1 – Michael Misa, C/LW, Saginaw In a year containing a handful of contenders to go first overall, MichaelContinue reading “Preliminary 2025 NHL Draft Rankings”

Alexander Appleyard, Gray Matter, Ben Jordan, SpokedZ, Chris Ford, Austin Garret and Josh Tessler combined their draft rankings and put together the official Smaht Scouting 2024 NHL Draft Final Rankings. Below you will find the rankings and a high level summary on each player. #1 – Macklin Celebrini – Center – Boston University I feelContinue reading “Final 2024 NHL Draft Rankings”

Alexander Appleyard, Gray Matter, Ben Jordan, SpokedZ, Chris Ford, Austin Garret and Josh Tessler combined their draft rankings and put together the official Smaht Scouting 2024 NHL Draft Spring Rankings. Below you will find the rankings and a high level summary on each player. #1 – Macklin Celebrini, F, Boston University I feel confident thatContinue reading “Spring 2024 NHL Draft Rankings”

Alexander Appleyard, Gray Matter, Ben Jordan, SpokedZ, Clare McManus, Chris Ford, Austin Garret and Josh Tessler combined their draft rankings and put together the official Smaht Scouting 2024 NHL Draft Preliminary Rankings. Below you will find the rankings and a high level summary on each player. #1 – Macklin Celebrini, F, Boston University I feelContinue reading “Preliminary 2024 NHL Draft Rankings”

The Smaht Scouting team completed their third annual mock draft. Ben Jordan , Austin Garret, Alex Appleyard, Josh Tessler, Gray Matter, Jordan Malette, Clare McManus and SpokedZ from the Smaht team participated. In addition, our ole buddy Sebastian Jackson drafted for a few teams as well. Each scout was assigned multiple NHL teams to draftContinue reading “2023 NHL Mock Draft”

For the last few seasons, I’ve published goaltender data in which I look at speed, rebound control and glove work. It’s served as a good bench mark when watching goaltenders and determining which goaltenders I’d fight for at the draft table. In the past, I have published my data on Tableau, but due to timeContinue reading “Goaltender Data – 2023 NHL Draft”

Photo Credit: Steve Hiscock / Saskatoon Blades Tanner Molendyk is a 2023 NHL Draft prospect and plays for the WHL’s Saskatoon Blades. He’s originally from Kamloops, British Columbia and had played locally with the Thompson Blazers in his youth. For the 2019-20 season, he joined the Yale Hockey Academy Prep U15 club and averaged 2Continue reading “Scouting Report: Tanner Molendyk”

Photo Credit: Frölunda HC Otto Stenberg is a 2023 NHL Draft eligible prospect and plays in the Frölunda system. He grew up in Stenungsund, Sweden and played for the local U16 and J18 teams before joining Frölunda. Otto’s father, David had played Swedish division two hockey in the early 2000’s. His brothers are also activelyContinue reading “Scouting Report: Otto Stenberg”