Both the fates of Macklin Celebrini and the San Jose Sharks were decided Tuesday night by the bounce of a lottery ball. While no announcement has been made by the team, GM Mike Grier didn't make it a secret about how much they like Celebrini and how excited they'll be to now have the right to select the wire-to-wire consensus No. 1 prospect at the 2024 NHL Draft in Las Vegas June 28.

The debate about who will go first overall in the 2024 NHL Draft is long over. Macklin Celebrini has been No. 1 all year and no one has ever seriously challenged him for that designation. It’s not hard to see why.

The NCAA men’s hockey tournament, as it so often is, will be a tremendous showcase for some of the very best NHL prospects currently playing college hockey. To help get you ready for the tournament, FloHockey compiled a list of all the NHL prospects that will be participating in the event over the next few weeks.

There is no mystery as to who the top prospect is in the 2024 NHL Draft. Macklin Celebrini has pulled away from the field and looks as though he will be the wire-to-wire No. 1 prospect in 2024.

Michael Hage entered the season as one of the top 2024 NHL Draft-eligible prospects in the USHL. A highly-touted forward out of Ontario when he and fellow Canadian Macklin Celebrini signed tender agreements to play for the Chicago Steel two years ago, everything was in front of him.

Following up on the preliminary watch list in October, NHL Central Scouting released its Midterm Rankings on Friday.

The 2024 U.S. National Junior Team had a lot of strengths going into the 2024 World Juniors. But one of the big questions was if their undersized, offensive-minded blue line would stand up and defend well enough against bigger, stronger teams. The answer was written in gold.

Team USA skated off the Scandinavium ice in Gothenburg with a gold medal, an unbeaten record and a tournament-high 45 goals scored. The expectation for that team is that they’d be able to out-score anybody and that proved to be more than true.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – Team USA silenced a sold-out Scandinavium as they promised they would, earning a 6-2 win over Sweden to claim the gold medal at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship. Team USA got a pair of goals from Isaac Howard (TBL) in the second period and three insurance markers in the third period, including an empty-net goal from captain Rutger McGroarty (WPG) to secure the country's sixth gold medal.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- Jonathan Lekkerimaki (VAN) scored two goals including the eventual game-winner as host Sweden advanced to the gold-medal game at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship. Sweden defeated Czechia 5-2 in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 11,000 fans, most of whom were clad in gold Sweden jerseys.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – The 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship has been awarded to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, a source confirmed. The news was first reported by The Rink Live.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – The 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship is down to its final four teams. After some surprising results in the quarterfinals, the top two seeds remain, but upsets created unexpected matchups in this stage of the medal round.

Canada’s 2024 World Junior Championship and quest for a third consecutive gold medal ended today in Gothenburg in a quarterfinal loss to the Czechs. This is the first time since 2019 in Vancouver that Canada has failed to reach the final game of the tournament, having appeared in each of the last four gold-medal games.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – The quarterfinals at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship are set and ready to be played Tuesday, Jan. 2 in Gothenburg. Defending champion Canada finished second in Group A and will meet Czechia, the third-place team from Group B.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – The quarterfinals at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship are set and ready to be played Tuesday, Jan. 2 in Gothenburg. The U.S. and Sweden finished atop their respective groups with Team USA taking the No. 1 overall seed heading into the medal round.