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Prospects · Washington Capitals · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Washington Capitals prospects

Every player in the Washington Capitals' system who still counts as a rookie, ranked by what he is likely to become: the odds he turns into an NHL regular, and how good the players most like him turned out to be. Draft position starts the estimate; what he does after the draft takes it over.

13thWashington Capitals: pipeline rank among 32 organizations5 in the league top 100 · 29 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Ilya ProtasL · NHL202024 · #7515 GP · 1-5-6▼12
2Lynden LakovicL · AHL192025 · #2713 GP · 3-7-10▼4
3Andrew CristallL · AHL212023 · #4013 GP · 1-10-11▼10
4Oliver SuvantoC · Liiga182026 · #1819 GP · 3-10-13▼1
5Terik ParascakR · WHL202024 · #173 GP · 0-0-0 AHL▼4
6Eriks MateikoL · AHL202024 · #9011 GP · 2-2-4▲199
7Tyus SparksC · WHL182026 · #10113 GP · 5-11-16▼17
8Petr SikoraC · AHL202024 · #17813 GP · 5-1-6▼140
9Jackson CrowderC · USHL192025 · #1551 GP · 0-0-0 NCAA▲2
10Maxim SchaferL · QMJHL192025 · #9613 GP · 6-6-12▼11
11Logan StuartC · WHL182026 · #20816 GP · 10-8-18▲3
12Bogdan TrineyevR · AHL242020 · #11713 GP · 4-4-8▲5
13Tyler KopffC · AHL23Undrafted8 GP · 3-5-8 ECHL▼2
14Patrick ThomasC · ECHL222023 · #10432 GP · 3-13-16▼10
15Alexander SuzdalevL · AHL222022 · #707 GP · 1-0-1▼4
16Ludwig PerssonL · ECHL222022 · #856 GP · 1-1-2▼1
17Miroslav SatanC · QMJHL202024 · #2125 GP · 1-0-1 Slovakia▲1
18Theodor NiederbachC · AHL242020 · #5111 GP · 1-2-3▼27
19Brett HylandC · NCAA232023 · #2004 GP · 0-0-0▼3

NHL odds are the chance he becomes a full-time NHL player — 200 games by age 26, or 100 by 27 for a goalie. Impact odds are the chance he becomes better than the typical regular at his position. WAR if he sticks is the middle outcome among his comparables who made it. The score is a percentile of the expected outcome across every prospect in the league, so forwards, defensemen and goalies sit on one scale. The rankings update every night. Week is the change in his league rank since October 29. Goalie projections are the least certain on the page: goaltending develops late and the history behind it is thin. How the rankings work