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Twenty OHL players have been invited to the 2026 NHL Scouting Combine, which gets underway this week at KeyBank Center and LECOM HarborCenter in Buffalo, N.Y.<\/span><\/p>\n

Running from June 1-6, the combine provides all 32 NHL clubs with an opportunity to conduct interviews, medical evaluations, and fitness testing on many of the top prospects eligible for the 2026 NHL Draft, set to take place June 26-27 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe NHL Combine is the final showcase event before the NHL Draft, and it’s a week full of interviews, medicals, and fitness testing where the players get to interact with NHL personnel and the NHL clubs get to learn as much as possible about the future stars of our game,\u201d said NHL Central Scouting Vice President and Director Dan Marr.<\/span><\/p>\n

A total of 90 players will attend the combine, including 56 forwards, 29 defencemen, and five goaltenders. All invitees are listed in NHL Central Scouting’s final rankings of North American and International skaters and goaltenders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the OHL invitees are several of the top-ranked prospects for the 2026 NHL Draft, including Chase Reid (Soo Greyhounds), Caleb Malhotra (Brantford Bulldogs), Nikita Klepov (Saginaw Spirit), and Ethan Belchetz (Windsor Spitfires), all of whom ranked inside the top 10 among North American skaters in NHL Central Scouting’s final rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Toronto Maple Leafs hold the first overall selection in the 2026 NHL Draft after winning the NHL Draft Lottery on May 5. The San Jose Sharks own the second pick, while the Vancouver Canucks will select third overall.<\/span><\/p>\n

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OHL Players Invited to the 2026 NHL Scouting Combine:<\/b><\/p>\n

Alessandro Di Iorio (Sarnia Sting)<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam Nemec (Sudbury Wolves)<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam Novotny (Peterborough Petes)<\/span><\/p>\n

Alexander Bilecki (Kitchener Rangers)<\/span><\/p>\n

Beckham Edwards (Sarnia Sting)<\/span><\/p>\n

Brooks Rogowski (Oshawa Generals)<\/span><\/p>\n

Caleb Malhotra (Brantford Bulldogs)<\/span><\/p>\n

Chase Reid (Soo Greyhounds)<\/span><\/p>\n

Cole Zurawski (Owen Sound Attack)<\/span><\/p>\n

Colin Fitzgerald (Soo Greyhounds)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ethan Belchetz (Windsor Spitfires)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jaxon Cover (London Knights)<\/span><\/p>\n

Layne Gallacher (Guelph Storm)<\/span><\/p>\n

Maksim Sokolovskii (London Knights)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pierce Mbuyi (Owen Sound Attack)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan Roobroeck (Niagara IceDogs)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryder Cali (North Bay Battalion)<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Vandenberg (Ottawa 67’s)<\/span><\/p>\n

Vladimir Dravecky (Brantford Bulldogs)<\/span><\/p>\n

Wesley Royston (Owen Sound Attack)<\/span><\/p>\n

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For more information on the 2026 NHL Scouting Combine, including the complete list of invitees, visit <\/span>NHL.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty OHL players will attend the 2026 NHL Scouting Combine in Buffalo ahead of the NHL Draft later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":298337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[{"term_id":3506,"name":"2026 NHL Draft","slug":"2026-nhl-draft","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3506,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw","term_order":"252"},{"term_id":2673,"name":"OHL News","slug":"ohl-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2689,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3755,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2951"}],"class_list":["post-298336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-2026-nhl-draft","tag-ohl-news","category-186","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/01132311\/Combine-web.jpg",1920,1080,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":298292,"date":"2026-06-01T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/?p=298292"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:29:37","slug":"2026-graduating-class-oshawa-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/article\/2026-graduating-class-oshawa-generals","title":{"rendered":"2026 Graduating Class: Oshawa Generals"},"content":{"rendered":"

After back-to-back appearances in the Ontario Hockey League Championship Series, the Oshawa Generals entered the 2025-26 season facing a new challenge. With several key veterans from those championship-calibre teams having moved on, the club embraced a younger roster and began the process of retooling for the future. While the Generals ultimately fell short of a postseason berth, the season provided valuable opportunities for the next generation of players to take on larger roles and gain important experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the Generals prepare to say goodbye to members of their graduating class as Lucas Moore, Matthew Wang, and Luke Posthumus move on from the OHL.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lucas Moore (Oshawa Generals, Brantford\/Hamilton Bulldogs \u2013 2021-26)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Acquired from the Brantford Bulldogs in a major trade in October, <\/span>Lucas Moore<\/span><\/a> spent the majority of his OHL career with the Bulldogs organization. Between Brantford and Oshawa, he recorded a career-high 33 points (11-22\u201333) during his overage season.<\/span><\/p>\n

The right-shot blueliner concludes his OHL career with 118 points (26-92\u2013118) across 299 regular-season games. Originally selected by Hamilton in the fourth round (66th overall) of the 2021 OHL Priority Selection, Moore is committed to Niagara University for next season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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LUCAS MOORE ARE YOU SERIOUS\ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n

He steals it before going between-the-legs to bury the @Oshawa_Generals<\/a> overtime winner! (defenceman btw)@FloHockey<\/a> | @CHLHockey<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Lz8u7iaoED<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ontario Hockey League (@OHLHockey) February 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n