Winnipeggers Nolan Patrick, Stelio Mattheos and Cody Glass have all been selected to play in next month’s 2017 Sherwin-Williams CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game in Quebec City.
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The annual game gives the best major junior hockey players from across the country a chance to show off their skills in front of hundreds of NHL scouts. All 15 CHL players chosen in the first round of the 2016 NHL Draft dressed in last year’s game.
Patrick received an invitation despite having not played since suffering an upper-body injury in October. The forward was forced to skip Hockey Canada’s national junior team selection camp this month as he was still recovering. It’s not known if the injury is related to the hernia surgery he underwent last off-season. Patrick has four goals and five assists in six games this season with the WHL’s Brandon Wheat Kings.
He’s projected to go first overall in next year’s NHL draft.
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Mattheos, a former first overall selection in the WHL Bantam Draft, has 12 goals and 14 assists in 32 games this year. The forward is currently playing in his second full season as a Wheat King.
Glass has scored 16 goals and 29 assists in 33 games with the WHL’s Portland Winterhawks. The forward won the league’s player of the week award earlier this season.
The 2017 Sherwin-Williams CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game will be played on January 30.