Prospects · Chicago Blackhawks · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Chicago Blackhawks prospects

Every player in the Chicago Blackhawks' 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.

5thChicago Blackhawks: pipeline rank among 32 organizations5 in the league top 100 · 33 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Drew CommessoG · NHL242020 · #467 GP · .890 AHL▼6
2Adam GajanG · NCAA222023 · #358 GP · .886 ECHL▼4
3Ilya KanarskyG · VHL212025 · #19411 GP · .945▼1
4Stanislav BerezhnoyG · AHL23Undrafted6 GP · .898–

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