{"id":410640,"date":"2026-01-16T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/410640\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:21:23","slug":"three-future-bulldogs-make-nhl-draft-rankings-duluth-news-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/410640\/","title":{"rendered":"Three future Bulldogs make NHL draft rankings &#8211; Duluth News Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three future Bulldogs make NHL draft rankings<\/p>\n<p>A trio of future UMD Bulldogs made NHL Central Scouting\u2019s mid-season 2026 draft rankings.<\/p>\n<p>All three are ranked among North American skaters:<\/p>\n<p>36. Victor Plante<br \/>118. Jackson Marthaler<br \/>223. Luke Puchner<\/p>\n<p>Plante, of Hermantown, and Marthaler, of Superior, are playing for the USA Hockey National Team Development Program and <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/bulldog-bites\/2026-27-bulldogs-signing-tracker\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have signed to play for the Bulldogs in 2026-27.<\/a> Plante leads the Under-18s in goals with 16 and points with 29 through 33 games this season.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/craigs-list-mckenna-stays-no-1-reid-emerges-as-top-defenceman\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TSN has Plante ranked No. 33 overall<\/a> \u2014 making him an early second round pick \u2014 in its draft rankings of the top 63 players for the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Puchner, who just turned 18, plays for Shattuck-St. Mary\u2019s and will likely play at least one season of juniors in 2026-27 before becoming a Bulldog.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NHL Draft is scheduled for June 26-27 in Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three future Bulldogs make NHL draft rankings A trio of future UMD Bulldogs made NHL Central Scouting\u2019s mid-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[462],"tags":[39800,1655,5,51665,51666,39802,39801,4,465,466,1662,1663,51667],"class_list":["post-410640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-draft","tag-2026-nhl-draft-rankings","tag-bulldogs-hockey","tag-hockey","tag-is-victor-plante-max-plantes-brother","tag-is-victor-plante-zam-plantes-brother","tag-jackson-marthaler","tag-jj-marthaler","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft","tag-nhl-entry-draft","tag-umd-bulldogs","tag-umd-hockey","tag-victor-plante"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115904517778493169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410640","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=410640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}