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2008 NHL Entry Draft Combine Results

The annual NHL Entry Draft combine assessment involves interviews, medical screenings, and fitness tests over a four-day period. See the complete list of 2009 combine invitees.

Central Scouting do not release the results of physical testing, except to the NHL member teams. The results of the fitness assessments (See details of the testing procedures) for the 2008 NHL Scouting Combine have been published on Keens website but have yet to be accessed. See more NHL Entry Draft Combine Results.


2008 Combine Results

The Combine Results were published on mckeenshockey, but we have yet to access all of this data. If you have some results to add to that below it would be very welcome to complete this resource. Please contact us. See the following links published in Jun 2008:

Upper Body Push Strength

Rank Score (lb.) Player Team / League
1 424 Brandon Burlon  
2 344 Joel Champagne  
3 340 Justin Jokinen  
4 337 Cody Hodgson  
5 328 Peter Delmas  

Upper Body Pull Strength

Rank Score (lb.) Player Team / League
1 305 Brandon Burlon  
2 302 Cody Hodgson  
3 301 John Carlson  
4 295 Zach Bogosian  
5 289 Luke Adam  

Push Ups

Rank Score Player Team / League
1 49 Brandon Burlon  
2 41 Kelsey Tessier  
3 40 Cody Goloubef  
4 39 Matt Calvert  
5 38 Brandon McMillan  

Bench Press Test (no. of reps at 150 lbs.)

Rank Score (reps) Player Team / League
1 21 Colin Wilson  
2 20 Chet Pickard  
=3 19 Zach Bogosian  
=3 19 Joel Champagne  
=5 16 Yann Sauve and  
=5 16 Josh Bailey  

Other Top Results

  • Curl-Ups: the winner with 76 was goaltender Jacob Deserres, with Zach Bogosian finishing second with 56
  • % body fat - lowest recorded was Peter Delmas 7.1% Other notable results, Bogosian - 7.4%, Boychuk - 7.8%, Tikhonov - 7.6%. The highest body fat % recorded was 13.8% by John Carlson.

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