- The franchise game's player cards, Development screen and skill comparison now say that the skill bars are not measured but spread from the player's overall rating, and that the overall rating is Don's where his workbook rates the player and the game's estimate otherwise.
- 13 Rink Central prospect pages print the player's name with its own letters, as the Swedish federation's roster writes it (for example Adam Nömme, Måns Gudmundsson, John Hägglöf), and the other prospect pages and the prospects hub that name them do too.
- Two more prospect pages print the name the player's league record gives: Vilmeri Väänänen, and Casper Juustovaara Karlsson.
- The prospects hub, the 2026 draft results and the rankings board print each prospect's name as his own profile does, following the club or league spelling (for example Ilia Morozov, Jack Galanek, Noa Ta'amu, Maksim Sokolovskii).
- Bobby Cowan and Jack Parsons appear under the names their clubs use.
- Every Rink Central page title now reads 'page: what it is | Rink Central', and each page's share title says the same; prospect pages read '<name>: <year> NHL Draft Profile | Rink Central', shortened only when a name is long, and 'Stats' appears in a title only where the page shows stats.
- Rink Central now publishes /llms.txt, a plain description of the site for AI tools.
- The sitemap now lists the Analytics pages and the two newest 2027 profiles.
- The Analytics pages no longer list Swedish U18 Nationell players as this season's club rosters; those rosters were last season's, so the U18 Nationell league and club pages are withdrawn.
- Analytics team pages show the newest league lines, as of 23 October.
- Six Rink Central 2027 board pages show the player's current club from the official record: Eli McKamey (Tri-City Americans), Jere Inkinen (Jokerit U20), and four that showed no club before (Artyom Mate, Cam Warren, Sebastian Taliga, Zakary Horvat-Édouard).
- The free-agency tool no longer shows third-party media contract projections.
- 57 Rink Central 2026 prospect pages gain a draft-season table: one row per competition, each with its source and date, and a labelled total only where every row is sourced.
- 39 Rink Central 2027 board pages gain a draft-season table, one row per competition with its source and date; every season line on the board pages names its source, and the 2027 class views name the source of GP, points and NHLe.
- The old Casper Juustovaara address now leads to Juustovaara Karlsson's current Rink Central page.
- On 80 Rink Central 2026 prospect pages whose player has since changed clubs, the description and the answers search engines read now name the club as his draft-season (2025-26) club instead of saying he plays there now, Cole Zurawski's among them.
- Lenni Kokkonen and Tomáš Selič have Rink Central 2027 profile pages, and every ranked player on the 2027 rankings now links to his page.
- The InStat statistics sectionsare removed from 6 Rink Central prospect pages.
- 40 Rink Central OHL and WHL team pages now take every player's club and stat line from a fresh read of the league's own pages, and Analytics adds pages for 6 more leagues and their clubs.
- Dorian Eklund Aspe, Michal Hartl and Semyon Gerasimov have their 2026-27 lines updated to the official record, and each line names its source.
- Four Swedish players' source lines now read in plain words.
- Landon DuPont's page leads with his WHL 2025-26 season, labelled Prior season, with its source.
- Every stat line on the 2027 board pages names its source and an as-of date.
- Five players no longer show the current season twice.
- The 2026 prospects' page titles name the 2026 draft.
- The 2027 board prospects' pages take a new layout: a shield in the club's colours instead of a photo, the 2026-27 season above the prior season, and the club each player is with now.
- Myles Brosnan's page shows Moncton Wildcats and his InStat statistics.
- About 50 prospects' names now read the way their club, league or federation prints them, everywhere Rink Central shows them.
- Charlie Morrison, Jamie Glance, Lars Steiner and Rian Chudzinski's pages gain an InStat statistics section, credited to InStat (Hudl).
- The /cap, /gm-mode and /franchise addresses open Cap Central instead of an empty article page.
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