Prospects · Columbus Blue Jackets · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Columbus Blue Jackets prospects

Every player in the Columbus Blue Jackets' system who still counts as a rookie, ranked by what he is likely to become: the odds he turns into an NHL regular, and how good the players most like him turned out to be. Draft position starts the estimate; what he does after the draft takes it over.

18thColumbus Blue Jackets: pipeline rank among 32 organizations2 in the league top 100 · 38 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Oscar HemmingL · NCAA182026 · #149 GP · 2-3-5▲3
2Luca PinelliC · AHL212023 · #11413 GP · 6-6-12▲35
3Alessandro Di IorioC · OHL182026 · #9416 GP · 8-8-16▲12
4Evan JardineL · NCAA182026 · #1218 GP · 4-6-10▲1
5Kirill DolzhenkovR · KHL222022 · #10922 GP · 1-0-1▼19
6Oiva KeskinenC · AHL222023 · #19413 GP · 2-5-7▼82
7Jeremy LorangerC · NCAA192025 · #19810 GP · 4-4-8▼48
8Anttoni UronenC · Liiga182026 · #18219 GP · 0-0-0▲1
9Filip NovakL · WHL182026 · #20613 GP · 4-6-10▼2
10Owen GriffinC · OHL192025 · #16016 GP · 6-21-27▼6
11James MalatestaL · AHL232021 · #13313 GP · 2-4-6▲36
12William WhitelawR · NCAA212023 · #669 GP · 7-7-14▼4
13Jack WilliamsC · NHL24Undrafted1 GP · 0-0-0▲93
14Josh EernisseC · AHL24Undrafted13 GP · 3-2-5▲23
15Luke TuchL · AHL242020 · #4713 GP · 3-1-4▲8
16Max McCueC · AHL232021 · #15613 GP · 0-6-6▲20
17Jordan DumaisR · AHL222022 · #9610 GP · 0-2-2▼9
18Riley BezeauR · AHL24Undrafted7 GP · 0-0-0–
19James FisherR · NCAA222022 · #2034 GP · 1-0-1–

NHL odds are the chance he becomes a full-time NHL player — 200 games by age 26, or 100 by 27 for a goalie. Impact odds are the chance he becomes better than the typical regular at his position. WAR if he sticks is the middle outcome among his comparables who made it. The score is a percentile of the expected outcome across every prospect in the league, so forwards, defensemen and goalies sit on one scale. The rankings update every night. Week is the change in his league rank since October 29. Goalie projections are the least certain on the page: goaltending develops late and the history behind it is thin. How the rankings work