Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Ready for Sean Couturier in CHL Top Prospects Game

Filed under: NHL Draft, Junior Hockey

TORONTO -- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is pumped about sizing up Sean Couturier (pictured right) at the CHL-NHL Top Prospects Game at the Air Canada Centre on Wednesday.

Nugent-Hopkins and Couturier have been joined at the hip as far as the hype for the 2011 NHL Draft goes. They're both pegged to be top-five picks and either could be best in class when NHL teams select what they hope will be their future stars in June.

But for the time being, the annual Top Prospects Game could be the only time between now and the end of the season that Nugent-Hopkins gets to face Couturier in a game, unless their respective major junior clubs advance to the Memorial Cup championship tournament, which takes place in May.

 

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