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The Hockey Writers prospect crew of Matthew Zator, Dayton Reimer, and Peter Baracchini get together to discuss some standouts from the recently completed 2025 Memorial Cup tournament. They also highlight some players and storylines to watch during the NHL Scouting Combine going on this week.0:00 Intro4:20 Standouts From Memorial Cup15:12 Which Draft-Eligible Prospect Increased Their Stock the Most?19:58 Storylines/Players to Watch at the Scouting Combine29:15 Who Has the Most to Gain at the Scouting Combine?Subscribe to the Prospects and Draft Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - https://thehockeywriters.substack.com/subscribeCheck out THW's 2025 NHL Draft Guide - https://thehockeywriters.com/2025-nhl-draft-guide/And, make sure to check out all our great prospects content - https://thehockeywriters.com/category/prospects/Follow The Hockey Writers:Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheHockeyWriterInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thehockeywriters_Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheHockeyWritersGraphics by Vince Richard - https://www.behance.net/vincergraphics

The Hockey Writers prospect crew of Matthew Zator and Dayton Reimer get together to highlight some players to watch in the upcoming 2025 Memorial Cup featuring the London Knights, Medicine Hat Tigers, Moncton Wildcats, and Rimouski Oceanic.Subscribe to the Prospects and Draft Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - https://thehockeywriters.substack.com/subscribeCheck out THW's 2025 NHL Draft Guide - https://thehockeywriters.com/2025-nhl-draft-guide/The THW Prospect Corner crew are great writers too:Matthew Zator - https://thehockeywriters.com/author/mzatorPeter Baracchini - https://thehockeywriters.com/author/pbaracchini/Dayton Reimer - https://thehockeywriters.com/author/dreimer/And, make sure to check out all our great prospects content - https://thehockeywriters.com/category/prospects/Follow The Hockey Writers:Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheHockeyWriterInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thehockeywriters_Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheHockeyWritersGraphics by Vince Richard - https://www.behance.net/vincergraphics

In this episode of The Hockey Writers Prospect Corner, Matthew Zator, Dayton Reimer, and Peter Baracchini get together to dive into Peter's top-64 2025 NHL Draft rankings for January where they look at his top-10 and some risers and fallers from his preseason rankings. Then in the second half of the show, they talk about NHL Central Scouting's recently released midterm rankings looking at surprises from the North American and International lists.

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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Prospect Corner, Matthew Zator, Peter Baracchini and Dayton Reimer get together to do a wrap-up of the 2025 World Junior Championship where they discuss the gold and bronze medal games and highlight the top players from every country in the tournament. They also talk about what Team Canada needs to change to get past the quarterfinal next year, whether James Hagens has pulled ahead in the first-overall conversation and more.

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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Prospect Corner, Matthew Zator and Dayton Reimer go over Team Canada's final roster for the 2025 World Junior Championship taking a look at some notable snubs and surprises compared to their camp roster. They also dive into Team Finland's camp roster looking at their forwards, defense, and goaltending.

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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Prospect Corner, Matthew Zator, Dayton Reimer and Peter Baracchini go over Team Sweden's final roster for the 2025 World Junior Championship. They also highlight some players that were missing from Team Canada and Team USA's camp rosters.

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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Prospect Corner, Matthew Zator, Dayton Reimer and Peter Baracchini go over Anthony Testaguzza's article projecting Team USA's roster for the 2025 World Junior Championship. Article: https://thehockeywriters.com/usa-2025-world-junior-championship-roster-prediction/ They also discuss some of the standouts from the recently completed 2024 CHL/USA Prospects Challenge.

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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Prospect Corner, Matthew Zator, Dayton Reimer and Peter Baracchini go over Justin Giampietro's article projecting Team Canada's roster for the 2025 World Junior Championship. Article: https://thehockeywriters.com/projecting-canada-roster-2025-world-junior-championship/

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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Prospect Corner, Matthew Zator, Dayton Reimer and Peter Baracchini get together to do another round of pitting two 2025 NHL Draft prospects against each other and discussing who they would select if given the choice. They also check in with the 2022 Draft class and talk about how they are doing a few years after getting selected.

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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Prospect Corner, Matthew Zator, Peter Baracchini, and Dayton Reimer get together to discuss the recently released NHL Central Scouting 2025 NHL Draft Players to Watch list. The guys highlight players to watch in the "A", "B", "C" and "W" groups as well as who they would choose first overall if the draft started tomorrow. They also talk about who their early Calder Trophy candidates are, and more.

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