Prospects · 2026–27

Fisher Scott

#— · Defense · shoots L · 6′1″, 179 lb · age 21 · Carbondale, USA

Status Prospect rookie-eligible · draft+2 · 0 NHL games so far pipeline rank 27 · expected peak 4
Drafted2024208th overall · round 7 · DET
Age21born Oct 27, 2004
This season · NCAA2games · Colorado College
Goals · assists · points0–1–1+4 · 0 pim

Pipeline Rankings

27th of 34 Red Wings prospects, shown with the two ranked above him and the two below.

RankPlayerPosLeagueLeague strengthGPGAPSince Oct 6
25 John Whipple D NCAA 0.194 2 0 0 0 –
26 Grayden Robertson-Palmer C/LW QMJHL · 2025–26 0.113 — — — — –
27 Fisher Scott D NCAA 0.194 2 0 1 1 ▲ 1
28 Sutter Muzzatti F AHL 0.389 3 1 0 1 ▲ 1
29 Austin Baker LW NCAA 0.194 2 1 1 2 ▲ 1

This season's line in each player's main league (the one with the most games). League strength is the Network NHLe coefficient from hockeystats.com. The ranking runs on last season's numbers until a player's current line reaches 10 games, then on this season's. Since Oct 6 counts the places moved from the start-of-season ranking. A league in grey with 2025–26 beside it means no games yet this season.

Where he projects

Four reads, every one measured against defensemen only, built on his 2025–26 season in the NCAA.

League strength0.194NCAA coefficient · a point there is worth 19% of an NHL point
Production, age-relative77thpercentile among NCAA defensemen born 2004, 2025–26 (128 of them) · NHLe 6.1 per 82
Ceilingreplacement levelthe upside case, not the forecast: 8% of 50 comparable paths reached replacement level or better; the 75th percentile lands at the 0th percentile of NHL defensemen · expected peak 4 (cohort 3, draft slot weighted 0.25) · 8% became NHL regulars
Trajectory+1.5NHLe per 82: 4.7 in the NCAA, 2024–25 to 6.1 in the NCAA, 2025–26
Closest paths at age 20DraftLeague thenNHLe / 82NHL outcomeNHL GP
Croix Evingson2017 · 211NCAA6.0did not stick0
Jake Ryczek2016 · 203QMJHL6.0did not stick0
Petter Hansson2015 · 202HockeyAllsvenskan6.0did not stick0
Ville Räsänen2017 · 197Mestis6.2did not stick0
Matt Hellickson2017 · 214NCAA6.4did not stick0
Santeri Airola2019 · 211Liiga5.8did not stick0
Daniel Bukac2017 · 204Czechia25.8did not stick0
Jacob Friend2016 · 202OHL5.8did not stick0

Draft pedigree. Picks 121-300 at the position, 380 of them since 2008: 15% became NHL regulars, 3% reached top-line production, expected peak 7. It carries weight 0.25 this season (draft+1); pedigree counts most in the draft year and nothing from draft+2.

Games behind the numbers. 36 in 2025–26, 128 same-year defensemen in the table, 50 comparable paths from a pool of 756.

League strength is the Network NHLe points coefficient from hockeystats.com (Patrick Bacon). Production is points per game among skaters of the same position and the same age in the same league and season (EliteProspects tables). Ceiling: the nearest 50 drafted skaters of the 2008–2019 classes at the same position and age, matched on NHLe and draft slot, and where each one's best NHL season landed as a points-per-game percentile among regulars at the position; a player who never had a half-season in the NHL counts as zero. Tiers follow the W-Value on the NHL pages: elite 88+, top-line 73+, above average 50+, below average 27+. NHL usage, for a skater with three or more NHL games this season: the nearest 50 rookie NHL seasons (5+ games, 2008–2019 classes, through 2022–23) at his position within a year of his age, matched on ice time per game and, at half weight, on points per game pulled toward the group average while his sample is small; their mean peak blends into the expected peak at weight games ÷ (games + 20). NHL games are never matched against minor-league seasons.

Where he played

Every line since his draft year, 2024, newest first. Counting stats only: no public expected-goals model covers the leagues below the NHL, so nothing here is presented as comparable across them.

SeasonLeagueTeamGPGAP+/−PIM
2026–27NCAAColorado College2011+40
2025–26NCAAColorado College3621214+734
2024–25NCAAColorado College343710012

A W-Value arrives once he has an NHL season large enough to rate; until then he is listed with the prospects.