Gavin McKenna, Top 2026 NHL Draft Prospect, Reportedly Set To Leave WHL For Penn State
The post Gavin McKenna, Top 2026 NHL Draft Prospect, Reportedly Set To Leave WHL For Penn State appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Per reports, Gavin McKenna of the WHL’s Medicine Hat Tigers will be playing NCAA Hockey for Penn … More State during his 2025-26 draft year. (Photo by Jonathan Kozub/Getty Images) Getty Images As NCAA Div. I hockey teams prepare to include players with Canadian Hockey League experience on their rosters for the first time this fall, top undrafted prospect Gavin McKenna looks set to join the exodus. Per multiple reports, McKenna will announce his commitment to Penn State University as early as Tuesday. Cam Robinson of Elite Prospects was first with the news. The 17-year-old left wing, who is widely believed to be the front-runner to be selected first overall in the 2026 NHL Draft, is coming off a 129-point regular season with the WHL’s Medicine Hat Tigers. He followed up with a playoff run that saw him collect 38 points in 16 games as the Tigers captured the WHL championship, then reach the final of the CHL’s Memorial Cup before falling to the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League. His haul of individual awards included the WHL and CHL player of the year honors, as well as a spot on the Memorial Cup all-star team Those are all heady achievements for a draft-minus-one prospect skating in a league with players who are up to 21 years old. Along the way, McKenna also amassed a 54-game point streak that carried over from the regular season into the playoffs — a CHL record for the 21st century. A native of Whitehorse in Canada’s Yukon Territory, McKenna is a small-town kid who left home at 13 to play in the Rink Hockey Academy program in Kelowna, B.C. His talent was no longer a secret by the time he was selected first overall by the Tigers in the 2022 WHL draft at…
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Per reports, Gavin McKenna of the WHL’s Medicine Hat Tigers will be playing NCAA Hockey for Penn … More State during his 2025-26 draft year. (Photo by Jonathan Kozub/Getty Images) Getty Images As NCAA Div. I hockey teams prepare to include players with Canadian Hockey League experience on their rosters for the first time this fall, top undrafted prospect Gavin McKenna looks set to join the exodus. Per multiple reports, McKenna will announce his commitment to Penn State University as early as Tuesday. Cam Robinson of Elite Prospects was first with the news. The 17-year-old left wing, who is widely believed to be the front-runner to be selected first overall in the 2026 NHL Draft, is coming off a 129-point regular season with the WHL’s Medicine Hat Tigers. He followed up with a playoff run that saw him collect 38 points in 16 games as the Tigers captured the WHL championship, then reach the final of the CHL’s Memorial Cup before falling to the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League. His haul of individual awards included the WHL and CHL player of the year honors, as well as a spot on the Memorial Cup all-star team Those are all heady achievements for a draft-minus-one prospect skating in a league with players who are up to 21 years old. Along the way, McKenna also amassed a 54-game point streak that carried over from the regular season into the playoffs — a CHL record for the 21st century. A native of Whitehorse in Canada’s Yukon Territory, McKenna is a small-town kid who left home at 13 to play in the Rink Hockey Academy program in Kelowna, B.C. His talent was no longer a secret by the time he was selected first overall by the Tigers in the 2022 WHL draft at…
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