Procyszyn to Prospects
NORTH BAY, Ont. — Ethan Procyszyn of the North Bay Battalion is one of 40 Canadian Hockey League players named Tuesday to the Kubota CHL-NHL Top Prospects Game to be played Jan. 24 at Moncton.
Procyszyn, who turned 17 on July 11, is a six-foot-three, 189-pound resident of Wasaga Beach, Ont. The Battalion chose him in the first round, 20th overall, of the 2022 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection from the North Central Predators U16s.
A centre who also has played right wing, Procyszyn has eight goals and 10 assists for 18 points while drawing 38 penalty minutes in 31 games this season.
As a rookie in 2022-23, he scored five goals and earned 13 assists for 18 points with 26 penalty minutes in 62 games. He won a silver medal with Canada Red at the 2022 World Under-17 Challenge at Langley, B.C., scoring three goals and adding one assist for four points in seven games.
The game, to which 18 OHL performers have been selected by National Hockey League clubs, will see the leading NHL Draft-eligible talent from the CHL, including the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League, compete before general managers and scouts from NHL teams.
The 40 participants, numbering four goaltenders and 36 skaters, will be split into Team Red and Team White. The honorary coaches are Gerard Gallant and his longtime associate Mike Kelly, onetime coach of the OHL’s North Bay Centennials.
Battalion goaltender Charlie Robertson played in the 2023 game at Langley.
The 2024 event will be the 28th edition of the showcase. Co-hosted by the QMJHL’s Moncton Wildcats at the Avenir Centre, it’s the first to be played in New Brunswick and the second in Atlantic Canada, after Halifax served as the site in 2013.
Players are first-time eligible for the NHL Draft in the year they turn 18, unless they are born Sept. 16 or later, in which case they must wait until the following year.
