2026 NHL Draft Profile | Chase Harrington, Spokane Chiefs

Spokane Chiefs Chase Harrington comes by his hardworking game honestly.

When the going gets tough, he thinks of the long hours his dad, Daryl, has put in on construction sites across B.C.’s Lower Mainland.

“Obviously, I’m not working full time, but just watching him, like, he gets up every day at 5:00 a.m., gets home at 7:00 p.m.,” Harrington said. “Just a big inspiration for me, the work that he puts in is just like, ‘Yeah, why can’t I do that in hockey?”

Harrington spends summers with Daryl on the job site as well, but he’s adding just as many new tools to his belt on the ice.

The 6’0.75, 202-pound winger is coming off a career-best 57-point (28G-29A) campaign with the Spokane Chiefs and is trending up ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft.

“After Christmas, I really think he took off,” Spokane Chiefs Head Coach Brad Lauer said. “I think the way he matured as an individual, I really thought his game matured along with him.

We talk about getting to the guts of the ice a lot, and that’s just getting to the netfront when the pucks are going there. I really thought he did a really good job the second half of getting to the guts of the ice and scoring goals, you know, 2-3 feet from the net. He’s got an exceptional shot- he needs to shoot more for us- but I really liked how he got to the hard areas and scored some goals. I really thought I gave him an identity to his game.”

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Indeed, Harrington averaged a point per game in the second half of the season (15G-11A) while embracing a power forward role with the Chiefs.

He tied for first on the squad in goals and had four game-winners, three of which came in 2026.

The Prince George, B.C. product also finished eighth among all WHL skaters in PIMs with 105.

“I think I just found a little more confidence offensively,” Harrington said of his hot start to the new year. “Things started clicking a little bit with me and my teammates, and yeah, we’ve been doing good since.

I think I have a lot of speed, my shots are really good. I think the thing that separates me is that little edge I have to my game. I win my battles. I get to the net, I’ll stand up for my teammates.”

Harrington has consistently added another layer of sandpaper to his game in the postseason (20 grit, by our estimation).

With the Chiefs trailing the Cougars 3-2 and staring down the threat of elimination in Game 5 of their first-round series, Harrington bagged the equalizer by swatting a loose puck in from the edge of the blue paint with :56 seconds left in regulation.

In overtime, he hit twine with a seeing-eye wrister from the slot to extend the series.

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While Spokane would bow out in Game 6, it was an overall positive showing for Harrington, who finished the postseason with four points (2G-2A).

Since being selected with the eighth overall pick in the 2022 WHL Prospects Draft, Harrington has posted 130 goals (53G-77A) in 194 regular-season games.

“Playing so many games, you have so much time to work on your game,” Harrington noted. “I think the amount of practices and games is a perfect mix, you can work on your game throughout the week, and then play, and then have weekday games here and there.”

He’s snagged invitations to the 2025 CHL USA Prospects Challenge, 2026 WHL Prospects Game and 2026 NHL Combine, where he’s been tested against the best of his age group.

Harrington enters the 2026 NHL Draft ranked 26th among all North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting in the agency’s final rankings, having climbed six spots since the midterm list dropped in mid-January.

NHL teams will reveal their newest selections at the 2026 NHL Draft at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y., on June 26 and 27.