TORONTO – The National Hockey League will release the NHL Central Scouting Bureau’s final rankings for the 2010 NHL Entry Draft on Wednesday at noon ET.  The rankings, featuring the top 210 skaters and 30 goaltenders in North America as well as the top 150 skaters and 10 goaltenders from Europe, will be available on NHL.com and announced on the NHL’s daily radio show, NHL Live!™.

Also tune in to NHL Network’s On the Fly Wednesday night, as E.J. McGuire, Director of Central Scouting, will be in studio to discuss the final ranking surprises and the top rated players in this year’s draft class. The 2010 NHL Entry Draft will take place at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on June 25-26.

Erie Otters forwards Andrew Yogan and Greg McKegg are expected to appear on the list of North American skaters. Yogan and McKegg 65th and 94th, respectively, in the mid-term rankings, released in January. Former Otters’ draft picks Riley Sheahan, now at Notre Dame, and Joe Basaraba, headed to Minnesota Duluth in the fall, were fifth and 39th, respectively, on the same list.

- From NHL news release, staff report

Erie Otters forwards Greg McKegg and Andrew Yogan are among the top 100 NHL draft prospects invited to participate the annual NHL Scouting Combine. The four-day combine is set for May 24-29 in Toronto, Ontario.

Notre Dame center Riley Sheahan, the Otters’ fourth-round pick in 2007 OHL Priority Selection, is invited. So has right wing Joe Basaraba, a senior at Shattuck-St. Mary’s – a private high school in Faribault, Minn., with a storied hockey tradition – who the Otters chose in the second-round of the 2008 OHL draft. Basaraba has committed to Minnesota Duluth.

Check out the complete list of invited players by clicking the above link.