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Washington Capitals select Terik Parascak with 17th overall pick in 2024 NHL Draft

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Washington Capitals select Terik Parascak with 17th overall pick in 2024 NHL Draft

The Washington Capitals chosen Terik Parascak with the seventeenth total choice within the 2024 NHL Draft.

Parascak is a Canadian proper wing, drafted from the WHL’s Prince George Cougars.

In 68 video games for the Cougars, he amassed 105 factors (43g, 62a) which was good for third-best on the workforce and eighth within the WHL. Parascak was teammates in Prince George with Capitals prospect Zac Funk and future Hershey Bears defenseman Hudson Thornton.

Parascak, Funk, and the nonetheless draft-eligible Ondrej Becher have been linemates on Prince George’s outrageous prime line that mixed for 324 factors (142g, 182a) final 12 months.

The 18-year-old winger burst onto the scene through the 2023-24 marketing campaign, his first full 12 months in Canadian main junior. He shortly rose to the highest of the Cougars lineup, made the 2024 CHL All-Rookie Crew, and earned the nickname “The Tremendous Rookie” after main all CHL rookies in factors, objectives, and assists.

The six-foot, 179-pound winger wasn’t a consensus top-20 decide however some nationwide analysts, like TSN’s Craig Button, had him ranked as excessive because the Thirteenth-best prospect within the draft.

“Truthfully, that is such an unbelievable second and a previous 12 months,” Parascak instructed ESPN’s Leah Hextall. “It’s the craziest 12 months of my life, and I by no means would have actually anticipated any of that again then, and I’m simply so honored to be right here.”

Parascak was trying down at his lap when the Capitals went to make their choice and was clearly shocked to listen to his title known as.

“I don’t even know, I fully blacked out,” Parascak instructed Sportsnet’s Jeff Marek. “That is such an unbelievable second. I don’t even know what to say. I’m misplaced for phrases.”

The Capitals usually are inclined to draft from the WHL partly attributable to assistant normal supervisor Ross Mahoney’s deep connections with the league. Mahoney was beforehand an assistant coach with the Regina Pats and performed for the Pats in his on-ice days.

Parascak joins Andrew Cristall (2023), Brett Hyland (2023), Ryan Hofer (2022), Vincent Iorio (2021), Dru Krebs (2021), Bear Hughes (2020), Garin Bjorklund (2020), Brett Leason (2019), and Aliaksei Protas (2019) who have been all chosen from WHL groups over the earlier 5 drafts.

Right here’s the Capitals press launch on the decide:

Capitals Choose Terik Parascak within the First Spherical of the 2024 NHL Draft

Ahead led Canadian Hockey League rookies in objectives and factors in 2023-24

LAS VEGAS – The Washington Capitals chosen Terik Parascak with the seventeenth total decide within the first spherical of the 2024 NHL Draft on Friday at Sphere in Las Vegas.

Parascak, 18, was ranked third amongst North American proper wings and fifteenth amongst all North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting. The Lethbridge, Alberta native spent the 2023-24 season with the Prince George Cougars (WHL), recording 105 factors (43g, 62a) in 68 regular-season video games. Parascak led all CHL rookies in objectives and factors and was named to the 2024 CHL All-Rookie Crew. Parascak’s 105 factors in 2023-24 have been probably the most by a CHL rookie since Patrick Kane and Sam Gagner in 2006-07. As well as, Parascak ranked eighth amongst all WHL skaters in factors, tied for ninth in objectives and tied for twelfth in assists. The 6’0”, 173-pound ahead ranked second amongst WHL rookies with 14 factors (6g, 8a) in 12 playoff video games throughout Prince George’s run to the WHL Ultimate.

Parascak spent the 2022-23 season with Edge Faculty Prep Academy of the Canadian Sport Faculty Hockey League (CSSHL U18), ending second within the league in objectives (32) and factors (66) in 30 video games performed. As well as, Parascak led the league with 12 factors (6g, 6a) in 5 playoff video games en path to the CSSHL Underneath-18 championship.

It marks the nineteenth time in franchise historical past that the Capitals have taken a participant from the Western Hockey League within the first spherical and Parascak is the tenth proper wing chosen within the opening spherical by Washington. The Capitals signed Parascak’s Prince George teammate Zac Funk as a free agent on March 1, 2024.

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