Erie Otters News & Stories

Matthew Schaefer only played one game at World Junior and it was pretty memorable.

Cam Robinson polled 10 NHL scouts and executives to get their thoughts on who is the top player in the 2025 class. The results may surprise you.

Mitch Brown highlights the biggest names on the move from the NCAA's ruling on CHL players, updated throughout the season.

In this week's Roundup, Sebastian High highlights Beckett Sennecke, Shane Wright, Owen Beck, and more.

Impressive performances by Matthew Schaefer, Simon Edvinsson, Jacob Fowler, Andrew Cristall, and Luca Pinelli feature in this week's Rinkside Roundup.

With the CHL's roster for the inaugural CHL USA Prospects Challenge announced, here's a player-by-player breakdown of what to expect.

Learn everything you need to know going into the 2024-25 OHL season with this comprehensive preview.

James Hagens is the undisputed top prospect coming into the year, but there are six other players who could challenge him for first overall in the 2025 NHL Draft.

Mitch Brown and Lassi Alanen break down everything you need to know about the CHL Import Draft.

Elite Prospects Dir. of North American Scouting Mitch Brown empties the notebook from the Draft Retrospective series, looking at lessons learned and offering insight on players that didn't quite warrant a full article.

Dylan Strome hasn't lived up to his draft status, but his development is still a success story.

The next instalment in the Draft Retrospective series looks at how Connor McDavid evolved from a generational prospect into a generational superstar.

The EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings continue with a look at the Dallas Stars 12th-ranked system.

The Elite Prospects team has ranked 64 players for the 2022 NHL Entry Draft with their second board of the season.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert solicited your questions on Twitter, and now he's answering them in the latest edition of the Rinkside mailbag. Looking at Connor Bedard's ranking among all-time greats, Chicago's rebuild, Don Sweeney's job in Boston, Michigan's ranking as a stacked college team, and more.

The Vancouver Canucks boast the NHL's 21st-best prospect pool according to our Elite Prospects scouts, and they're the subject of today's writeup in the EP Rinkside prospect pool ranking countdown.

The 2020-21 OHL season was lost to the ongoing pandemic. Elite Prospects Ontario regional scout Lauren Kelly looks at 8 players with something to prove when the league gets going in the fall.

The Anaheim Ducks and their 12th-ranked prospect pool in the NHL might be as unfairly maligned a team as you’ll find in this entire process. The future is Orange County...