Prospects · Washington Capitals · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Washington Capitals prospects

Every player in the Washington Capitals' 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.

13thWashington Capitals: pipeline rank among 32 organizations5 in the league top 100 · 29 prospects in the system

Prospects and the Washington Capitals'NHL players aged 23 and under, scored on the same scale. A regular's odds are high because he is already there; his score says how good the players like him became.

95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Cole HutsonD · NHL202024 · #4315 GP · 4-5-9▲1
2Ryan LeonardR · NHL · NHL212023 · #815 GP · 5-6-11Here
3Ilya ProtasL · NHL202024 · #7515 GP · 1-5-6▼12
4Lynden LakovicL · AHL192025 · #2713 GP · 3-7-10▼4
5Andrew CristallL · AHL212023 · #4013 GP · 1-10-11▼10
6Oliver SuvantoC · Liiga182026 · #1819 GP · 3-10-13▼1
7Ivan MiroshnichenkoL · NHL · NHL222022 · #203 GP · 1-0-1
8Antoine KellerG · NL212023 · #20613 GP · .901▲2
9Terik ParascakR · WHL202024 · #173 GP · 0-0-0 AHL▼4
10Nicholas KempfG · NCAA202024 · #1144 GP · .922▼2
11Eriks MateikoL · AHL202024 · #9011 GP · 2-2-4▲199
12Tyus SparksC · WHL182026 · #10113 GP · 5-11-16▼17
13Cam AllenD · AHL212023 · #13610 GP · 1-4-5▲36
14Petr SikoraC · AHL202024 · #17813 GP · 5-1-6▼140
15Leon MuggliD · AHL202024 · #529 GP · 1-0-1▲7
16Jackson CrowderC · USHL192025 · #1551 GP · 0-0-0 NCAA▲2
17Maxim SchaferL · QMJHL192025 · #9613 GP · 6-6-12▼11
18Logan StuartC · WHL182026 · #20816 GP · 10-8-18▲3
19Ryan ChesleyD · AHL222022 · #3713 GP · 1-4-5▲53
20Tyler KopffC · AHL23Undrafted8 GP · 3-5-8 ECHL▼2
21Aron DahlqvistD · U20 Nationell192025 · #18015 GP · 0-4-4 HockeyAllsvenskan▼10
22Patrick ThomasC · ECHL222023 · #10432 GP · 3-13-16▼10
23Alexander SuzdalevL · AHL222022 · #707 GP · 1-0-1▼4
24Brian McFaddenD · USHL182026 · #1445 GP · 0-1-1▼2
25Ludwig PerssonL · ECHL222022 · #856 GP · 1-1-2▼1
26Miroslav SatanC · QMJHL202024 · #2125 GP · 1-0-1 Slovakia▲1
27David GucciardiD · AHL232022 · #2137 GP · 0-0-0▲2
28Brett HylandC · NCAA232023 · #2004 GP · 0-0-0▼3

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