Over the current Chicago Blackhawks rebuild, they have drafted and developed a lot of great young defensemen. This is an important position to have depth, and Kyle Davidson has hammered that point ...

Barely a month into his new role, first-time GM Mathieu Darche has the opportunity to add a young, NHL-ready cornerstone to a ...

Schaefer, a wiry 17-year-old defenseman standing 6-foot-2 and 185 pounds, heads into the draft as the consensus top prospect, ...

The Islanders have previously picked No. 1 four times, with John Tavares the most recent in 2009. The last time they took a ...

The San Jose Sharks selected Celebrini with the first overall pick in the 2024 NHL draft after Celebrini compiled a ...

Matthew Schaefer has watched the NHL draft plenty of times. A player gets picked and is congratulated by family members ...

Emotional because he'll be thinking of his mom every step of the way. The 17-year-old defenseman of Erie of the Ontario Hockey League lost his mother, Jennifer, to breast cancer in February 2024, two ...

Michael Misa has already demonstrated during his brief hockey career that he’s quite willing to put the team first.

Matthew Schaefer, a defenceman with the OHL’s Erie Otters, is the top-ranked North American skater heading into the NHL draft ...

LOS ANGELES – Mathieu Darche had nothing to do with the Islanders winning the NHL Draft Lottery despite just a 3.5% chance to ...

Matthew Schaefer is not a member of the New York Islanders organization just yet, but all signs are pointing to that with the 2025 NHL Draft just a day away.

While the top two picks appear to be locked in, what happens after that? Here's the final projection before Friday's first ...