Draft Combine Notebook Offers Fresh Clues on 2026 Class

The NHL Draft Combine is where teams do their homework in public and their real work behind closed doors. This notebook pulls together what scouts and executives are saying after a week of measurements, interviews, and the kind of one-on-one digging that can reshape a board. The surface-level tests matter, but the bigger story is always which prospects helped themselves when the room got quiet. By the time the draft arrives, a few names could look very different than they did before Buffalo.