As the 2026-27 hockey season kicks off across North America, the NHL Central Scouting office is out with their latest Preliminary Players to Watch list for the 2027 NHL Draft including ratings for players they have identified as first through seventh round candidates.
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2027 NHL Draft Preliminary Players to Watch List - NHL Central Scouting
Here's a quick list of the A-Rating players. A full list of the ratings can be found on NHL.com.
A-Rating
- Max Calce - Mannheim (Germany)
- Brock Cripps - Prince Albert (WHL)
- Noah Davidson - Medicine Hat (WHL)
- Landon Dupont - Michigan (NCAA Big10)
- Ryerson Edgar - Niagara (OHL)
- Brock England - Seattle (WHL)
- Jamie Glance - Saint John (QMJHL)
- Levi Harper - Saginaw (OHL)
- Alexis Joseph - Saint John (QMJHL)
- Timothy Kazda - Guelph (OHL)
- Aleksey Kulemin - Kingston (OHL)
- Malik L'Italien - Halifax (QMJHL)
- Cooper McAslan - London (OHL)
- Bosse Meijer - Frolunda (Sweden)
- Carter Meyer - Quebec (QMJHL)
- Sammy Nelson - Notre Dame (NCAA Big10)
- Jonah Neuenschwander - Biel-Bienne (Swiss)
- Andrei Pustovoy - Yaroslavl (Russia)
- Nazar Privalov - Cska (Russia)
- Vilmer Salen Forsberg - Brantford (OHL)
- Sergei Skvortsov - Nizhny Novgorod (Russia)
- Kayden Stroeder - Edmonton (WHL)
- Milan Sundstrom - Modo (Sweden-2)
- Easton Walos - Sarnia (OHL)
- Jaakko Wycisk - Guelph (OHL)
- Bogdan Yakushevsky - Windsor (OHL)
- Dimian Zhilkin - Saginaw (OHL)
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