{"id":256741,"date":"2025-10-21T02:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/256741\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:30:32","slug":"nine-tigers-named-to-nhl-central-scoutings-preliminary-players-to-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/256741\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Tigers named to NHL Central Scouting&#8217;s preliminary players to watch list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"posted\">By James Tubb on October 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/101525-L-Ruck5-300x210.jpg\" class=\"lazyload attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  data-\/>NEWS PHOTO JAMES TUBB<br \/>\nMedicine Hat Tigers forward Liam Ruck celebrates Riley Steen&#8217;s first WHL goal in a 5-0 win over the Portland Winterhawks at Co-op Place on October. 11. Liam and Markus Ruck are two of nine Tigers&#8217; named to the NHL Central Scouting&#8217;s preliminary player to watch list for the 2026 NHL Draft.A collection of Medicine Hat Tigers have gotten the attention of NHL Central Scouting.<br \/>\nNine Tigers were named to Central Scouting\u2019s preliminary player to watch list released on Monday.<br \/>\nThe list breaks players into letter-grade ratings based on which round(s) they are candidates to be selected in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. Former Tigers forward Gavin McKenna leads the list as one of 27 players graded with an A-rating.<br \/>\nThe nine Tigers ranked are:<br \/>\nB-rating<br \/>\n(Indicates a second\/third round candidate)<br \/>\nDefenceman Kyle Heger (2007, 11 games played, 1 goal and five points)<br \/>\nForward Markus Ruck (2008, 10 games played, 1 goal and 11 points)<br \/>\nForward Liam Ruck (2008, 11 games played, two goals and 10 points)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nC- rating<br \/>\n(Indicates a fourth\/fifth round candidate)<br \/>\nForward Yaroslav Bryzgalov (2007, 11 games played, three goals and 11 points)<br \/>\nGoalie Carter Casey (2007, 2-2, 2.03 GAA, .925 SV%, 1 SO)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nW-rating<br \/>\n(Indicates a sixth\/seventh round candidate)<br \/>\nForward Kadon McCann (2007, 11 games played, two goals and five points)<br \/>\nForward Kade Stengrim (2007, 10 games played, two goals and four points)<br \/>\nDefenceman Riley Steen (2008, 11 games played, 1 goal and 1 point)<br \/>\nGoalie Jordan Switzer (2007, 5-2, 2.83 GAA, .900 SV%)<br \/>\nThe nine Tigers are joined by 76 other WHLers on the NHL Central Scouting\u2019s preliminary list. The Tigers (7-4) are off until Wednesday when they continue the B.C. Division road trip, taking on the Prince George Cougars.<br \/>\n20<br \/> -19\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By James Tubb on October 20, 2025. NEWS PHOTO JAMES TUBB Medicine Hat Tigers forward Liam Ruck celebrates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[5,767,4,465,466,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-256741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-medicine-hat-tigers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-draft","12":"tag-nhl-entry-draft","13":"tag-whl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115409808858158320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256741","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=256741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}