The top NHL Prospects in the QMJHL

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We continue with our series profiling the breakout NHL drafted players, already affiliated with a franchise, since the start of the season. This week Charles Lassonde and Benoit Belanger, our two very active scouts in the QMJHL, more often than not, found in a rink, detail the players on the rise this season. Several key additions to the Canada’s World Junior team are included in Elliot Desnoyers, along with linemates Mavrik Bourque and Xavier Bourgault.

If you would like to read the previous entries in this column from the CHL by Brock Otten and Vince Gibbons, you can find the top OHL prospects here as well as the top prospects in the WHL here.

Once you have read those, you will want to check out Brock Otten’s preview of Team Canada’s roster, which we have left unlocked on the website for all to enjoy here. Look for much more World Juniors content at www.mckeenshockey.com prior to the tournament and throughout on the site.

The McKeen’s team are scouting and writing about prospects all season long and provide in-depth reports on our website: www.mckeenshockey.com

Prospects in the News: QMJHL prospects delivering on mid to late round bets for NHL teams

By Benoit Belanger and Charles Lassonde

Elliot Desnoyers – C/LW – Halifax Mooseheads (Philadelphia Flyers)

Desnoyers, a former fifth round pick of the Flyers in 2020, has returned to the QMHJL to play what looks like to be his final QMHJL season (he has signed his first professional contract). Since playing for the Mooseheads, Desnoyers has been lights out offensively. He scored 49 points in 2020-21 to finish the season seventh in the scoring column of the QMJHL (not bad for a guy who was drafted as a defensive minded player). This year, he was named the captain of Halifax and he…