4. Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n
Carson Carels NHL Draft Profile
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\n\tPosition: Defenseman
\n\t2025-26 Team: Prince George
\n\tLeague: WHL
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Carson Carels ESPN Draft Data
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\n\tBig Board Rank: 3
\n\tNHL ceiling: Top pair
\n\tNHL floor: Top four
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A 6-foot-2 left-handed defenseman known for his heavy, competitive style and impressive offensive instincts, Carels offers Chicago a stabilizing defensive prospect to build around alongside Connor Bedard.<\/p>\n
“There is little doubt that Chicago would love for Stenberg to fall to them, and while that is a possibility, it shouldn’t happen. Instead, Chicago lands Carels, who has comparables such as Zach Werenski\u00a0and\u00a0Cale Makar.” \u2014 Kryshak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4. Chicago Blackhawks Carson Carels NHL Draft Profile Position: Defenseman 2025-26 Team: Prince George League: WHL Carson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[7704,40821,66569,40516,627,44170,2216,39813,66571,26,21430,1843,21431,96,66572,230,66573,21432,2217,66562,66561,21433,33702,57,766,54453,56047,66560,20597,5,6009,629,2529,66565,26989,66567,2218,2409,231,66574,5281,151,33706,159,33707,35,4,1693,66570,591,8463,4884,10568,3959,64938,61578,4942,27992,41478,2219,2149,66568,66563,2410,66575,168,234,66576,84,66577,8384,31,66564,66566,33710,10800,66578,27,632,109,11012,2071,18,33712,26017],"class_list":["post-599393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-2026-nhl-draft","tag-2026-nhl-draft-lottery","tag-2026-nhl-draft-top-prospects","tag-2026-nhl-mock-draft","tag-adam-novotny","tag-alberts-smits","tag-atlantic-division","tag-caleb-malhotra","tag-calgary-ab","tag-calgary-flames","tag-carson-carels","tag-central-division","tag-chase-reid","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-chicago-il","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-columbus-oh","tag-daxon-rudolph","tag-eastern-conference","tag-espn-mock-draft","tag-espn-nhl-mock-draft","tag-ethan-belchetz","tag-florida-fl","tag-florida-panthers","tag-gavin-mckenna","tag-gavin-mckenna-mock-draft","tag-gavin-mckenna-nhl-draft","tag-gavin-mckenna-no-1-pick","tag-gavin-mckenna-penn-state","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-prospects","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-keaton-verhoeff","tag-maple-leafs-no-1-pick","tag-mathis-preston","tag-mckenna-to-maple-leafs","tag-metropolitan-division","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashville-tn","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-new-jersey-nj","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-new-york-ny","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-central-scouting","tag-nhl-draft-first-overall-pick","tag-nhl-draft-lottery","tag-nhl-draft-news","tag-nhl-draft-order","tag-nhl-draft-predictions","tag-nhl-draft-prospects","tag-nhl-draft-rumors","tag-nhl-prospect-rankings","tag-nhl-mock-draft","tag-nikita-klepov","tag-oliver-suvanto","tag-pacific-division","tag-penn-state-hockey","tag-penn-state-nhl-draft","tag-post-lottery-nhl-mock-draft","tag-predators","tag-san-jose-ca","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattle-wa","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-st-louis-mo","tag-top-nhl-draft-prospects","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-draft-pick","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-gavin-mckenna","tag-toronto-on","tag-tynan-lawrence","tag-vancouver-bc","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-viggo-bjorck","tag-washington-capitals","tag-washington-dc","tag-western-conference","tag-winnipeg-jets","tag-winnipeg-mb","tag-wyatt-cullen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599393","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=599393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}