{"id":686749,"date":"2026-05-22T06:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686749\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:16:10","slug":"jack-nesbitt-commits-to-university-of-michigan-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686749\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Nesbitt Commits To University Of Michigan \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Flyers first-round pick Jack Nesbitt<\/a> announced on social media today that he has committed to play NCAA hockey at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n

Nesbitt, 19, has played the last three seasons for the Windsor Spitfires of the OHL. Today\u2019s announcement confirms his OHL career has now concluded. A 6\u20194\u2033 center, Nesbitt has been a quality top-six center for the Spitfires in each of the last two seasons. In his draft campaign, he scored 25 goals and 64 points in 65 regular-season games, and 10 points in 12 playoff games.<\/p>\n

This past year, Nesbitt kept up those levels of production \u2013 though he didn\u2019t take a major step forward statistically. He finished 2025-26 with 25 goals and 58 points in 55 regular-season games, and 10 points in 13 playoff games. Nesbitt\u2019s Spitfires made a run to the OHL\u2019s conference finals, where they were dispatched in five games by the Kitchener Rangers, the eventual champions.<\/p>\n

As a prospect, Nesbitt is generally well-regarded, though some have questioned his eventual NHL upside. Entering the season, the team at Elite Prospects ranked Nesbitt the No. 8 prospect in the Flyers\u2019 system<\/a>, and he did not feature in their ranking of the top-100 prospects<\/a> league-wide. In ranking him No. 8 in Philadelphia\u2019s system, Cam Robinson wrote Nesbitt \u201cprojects as a reliable two-way forward who can play tough minutes and chip in offensively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Wheeler of The Athletic rated Nesbitt<\/a> the No. 4 prospect in Philadelphia\u2019s system last month, and the No. 80 prospect leaguewide<\/a>. Wheeler noted scouts have \u201cquestions about [Nesbitt\u2019s] ultimate offense and whether he projects as more of a third-line player than a top-six one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nesbitt will get the chance to try to answer those questions at Michigan. He\u2019ll join a team filled to the brim with quality NHL prospects, including first-round pick forwards Michael Hage<\/a> and Will Horcoff<\/a>, as well as potential 2026 first-rounders in Adam Valentini<\/a> and J.P. Hurlbert<\/a>. Given how much talent Michigan expects to have next season, it will be interesting to see whether Nesbitt lands in the top-six as a freshman with the Wolverines, or if he is utilized in more of a supporting role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers first-round pick Jack Nesbitt announced on social media today that he has committed to play NCAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,330819,704,575,3065,85],"class_list":["post-686749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jack-nesbitt","tag-ncaa","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}