Preparations for this summer's Washington prospect gathering are already underway, with the club handing invites to a pair of collegiate players who went undrafted ahead of the usual week-long session staged at its Arlington practice facility.
One such invitee, per a social-media report from Mark Divver — who covers the sport for New England Hockey Journal — brings an unmistakable surname plus a bloodline linking him to an enshrined member of the Hall. That forward — Ryan St. Louis by name — plays for Brown University and happens to be a son of Montreal's current head coach, the celebrated former NHL winger Martin St. Louis. The younger man is slated to take part.
Now 21, the younger St. Louis once skated within the national team's development setup for the US, then moved to Northeastern for a 2021-22 campaign there. The following 2022-23 year saw him join Dubuque's USHL outfit, the Fighting Saints; after that he settled in at Brown for his two latest seasons.
The 180-pound, 5-foot-10 forward topped the scoring chart for the Bears in each of his two years on campus. Across 23 games this past season he registered 11 goals and 18 assists for a 29-point haul, picked up honorable-mention recognition for the squad named All-Ivy, and advanced to semifinalist consideration regarding the award bearing Walter Brown's name — that trophy goes each year to New England's premier American-born collegian.
Divver additionally reported, in a separate post, that Michigan State's Daniel Russell, also a forward, will accompany the younger St. Louis to Washington's session. Over the last pair of campaigns Russell has anchored the Spartans' first line, where he piled up 26 goals and 24 assists — 50 points in all — through 75 outings.
The Michigan product capped his 2024-25 year ranked third across the country in game-deciding goals, with seven, and supplied the helper on Isaac Howard's double-overtime winner during the conference championship game, a Big Ten clash versus Ohio State.
As a rule, Washington runs its prospect camp once each year's draft has concluded. The league's 2025 draft is slated for the 27th and 28th of June, with Los Angeles hosting.
Newcomers from Washington's freshly minted draft haul will join the undrafted collegians and other prospects chosen in earlier years once camp gets going.