The Athletic ranked Gavin McKenna outside the top-3 of its NHL Draft prospects
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The Athletic's Corey Pronman has ranked Gavin McKenna as his No. 4 prospect in the 2026 NHL Draft class. Wait, what?
McKenna is considered the consensus No. 1 in the class and the most likely to be taken by the Toronto Maple Leafs with the first pick. There's a bit of a case to be made that one or two players should be ahead of him.
But three -- and all defensemen? It's a bit of an unusual list. "Given how close the evaluations are, my approach is always to lean toward the defensemen," Pronman writes.