{"id":186331,"date":"2025-09-09T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/186331\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:04:13","slug":"new-jersey-devils-prospect-update-prospect-challenge-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/186331\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils Prospect Update: Prospect Challenge Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The prospect challenge kicks off this week in Buffalo. This post covers it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/devils\/news\/prospects-challenge-2025-schedule-announced-release-7-14-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL press release<\/a>, the prospect challenge will take place between September 11-15 in Buffalo in a small tournament between the Bruins, Sabres, Blue Jackets, and the Devils. The first game of the series will be between the Devils and the Blue Jackets at 7 P.M. The Devils will also play the Bruins on September 12th at 7 P.M. and the Sabres on September 14th at noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In past years, the prospect challenge was streamed on NewJerseyDevils.com and their mobile app. While I have not seen confirmation yet as of the time of the writing of this article on Saturday night, there is no reason to believe that will not be the case again this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Most urgently, I am looking forward to an official roster, which may or may not be released before this article publishes. Overseas and college-bound players do not typically attend this event, so one should not expect Anton Silayev, Mikhail Yegorov, and similiar-situated prospects. Silayev, especially, as the KHL has started its season. As such, Lenni Hameenaho was absent last year, but is likely to be part of the prospect roster this season. Jakub Malek and Tyler Brennan are likely to be two of the goalies invited. If tradition holds, there should be a number of invitees as well and encouraging prospects such as Cam Squires and Matyas Melovsky. It would be exciting to get a glimpse of Arseni Gritsyuk, but don\u2019t be surprised if the Devils leave him out of the tournament to prepare for the NHL season instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Post your comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prospect challenge kicks off this week in Buffalo. This post covers it. Per the NHL press release,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4,4778],"class_list":{"0":"post-186331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-newjersey","13":"tag-newjerseydevils","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-prospects-devils-otherwise"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115175428190523426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}