{"id":85798,"date":"2026-01-13T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85798\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:07:25","slug":"two-erie-otters-listed-in-central-scouting-draft-rankings-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85798\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Erie Otters Listed in Central Scouting Draft Rankings | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National Hockey League\u2019s Central Scouting Service released its midseason rankings Tuesday. Two current Erie Otters and a former player were listed among the top North American skaters.<\/p>\n

Defenseman Lucas Ambrosio was ranked the 82nd North American skater. Central Scouting currently projects as a third-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, according to Central Scouting. He has a goal and 11 points in 39 games this season. A 6\u20193\u201d, 194 lb left-shot defenseman, Ambrosio is in his second season with the Otters.<\/p>\n

The other Otter listed is Kase Kamzik, who was the 208-ranked player. He is projected as a seventh-round selection by Central Scouting. The Johnstown, PA native joined the Otters in a late-November trade with Sarnia that sent Tyler Challenger to the Sting.<\/p>\n

In 19 games with Erie, Kamzik has a goal and five points.<\/p>\n

A former Otter was also listed on the mid-term report. Wesley Royston was ranked 51st among North American players, projected as a second-round selection.<\/p>\n

Royston was traded on Halloween to Owen Sound for Michael Dec. He has seven goals and 10 points in 23 games.<\/p>\n

The full list can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NHL Draft will be held at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, June 26-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Hockey League\u2019s Central Scouting Service released its midseason rankings Tuesday. Two current Erie Otters and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[42920,136,138,137,17019,42922,42921,39309],"class_list":{"0":"post-85798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-central-scouting","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-erie-otters","13":"tag-kase-kamzik","14":"tag-lucas-ambrosio","15":"tag-nhl-draft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}