Off to a strong start in Québec, the Remparts centre will face his former team, the U.S. National Team Development Program (NTDP), in Chicoutimi on Dec. 1 and on home ice in Québec City on Dec. 2.
Carter Meyer came to the Québec Remparts to become a more complete player. He wants to create offence, control the pace, and be counted on in every situation.
Six games into his Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) career, the 17-year-old from Winchester, Mass., is already making his presence felt.
He has recorded two goals and seven assists in that span, giving Québec an immediate offensive spark to open his 2027 NHL Draft season.
Meyer was one of the first four players named to Team CHL on September 23 for the 2026 CHL USA Prospects Challenge presented by Primaris. His Remparts teammate and St. Louis Blues prospect Maddox Dagenais, who played in last year’s series, surprised him with the news.
For Meyer, the selection sets up a reunion with his former team, the U.S. National Team Development Program (NTDP). He will represent the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) against the U.S. National Under-18 Team in Chicoutimi on December 1, then return to his new home ice at the Vidéotron Centre in Québec City on December 2.
Meyer has already made an impression in both host cities. In a 5–2 Remparts win in Chicoutimi on September 20, he scored his first QMJHL goal and added three assists.
Five nights later, he collected three more assists in front of 8,986 fans at the Vidéotron Centre as Québec beat Shawinigan 7–3 in its home opener. Eight of his first nine QMJHL points came in the two buildings where he will represent Team CHL in December.
Dagenais and fellow NHL-drafted forward Nathan Quinn each added four points on Meyer’s line that night. Afterward, head coach Éric Veilleux praised Meyer’s work habits and physical preparation.
Meyer has also found early chemistry with fellow newcomer James Scantlebury, another 2027 NHL Draft prospect who matched his nine points through six games. They began the season on the same power-play unit. “They train together and want to improve together, and that can show on the ice,” general manager Simon Gagné told Le Journal de Québec in French.
That drive to improve was central to Meyer’s decision to come to Québec. “I want to be a player that can impact the game in every situation … I think I’ll be able to do that in Quebec,” he told RG’s Marco D’Amico in August.
Selected 17th overall by Québec in the 2025 QMJHL Draft, Meyer joined the Remparts in July after departing from the NTDP. He told RG that the opportunity to win and develop his game appealed to him. So did the opportunity to play alongside his older brother, defenceman Freddy, who joined the Remparts in 2024–25.
Speaking of family, Carter’s father, former NHL defenceman Freddy Meyer, coached him at The Rivers School in Massachusetts, where Carter recorded 41 goals and 70 points in 28 games in 2024–25. He then joined the NTDP, where his responsibilities grew over the course of the 2025–26 season.
U17 coach Greg Moore trusted Meyer to kill penalties, take important faceoffs, protect a lead or help chase a late goal. “He grew his role as the year went on, and it was well-earned,” Moore told The Hockey News’ Ryan Kennedy.
He also represented the U.S. internationally, recording 10 points in four games at the 2025 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, where the Americans won bronze, and five points in five games at the 2026 IIHF U18 Men’s World Championship.
Meyer’s strong start in Québec is part of a growing American impact across the CHL. He now has a chance to follow the recent example of U.S. prospects who used their time in the WHL, OHL, and QMJHL to strengthen their games and their NHL Draft standing.
“Really interested to see what [Meyer] can do in Quebec City,” a scout told RG’s Marco D’Amico in August. “Guys like J.P. Hurlbert, Chase Reid and Tommy Bleyl really improved their draft stock by jumping to the CHL last year and I think Carter will likely benefit this year as well. Top-10 prospect for me right now.”
Just last season, Hurlbert earned WHL Rookie of the Year honours with the Kamloops Blazers, while Reid won the CHL Top Draft Prospect Award with the Soo Greyhounds. Bleyl was named both QMJHL and CHL Rookie of the Year with the Moncton Wildcats.
Alongside Saginaw’s Nikita Klepov, they gave the CHL four U.S.-born first-round picks in 2026, matching its highest total in a single draft this century. Hurlbert, Klepov and Bleyl also made history as the first U.S.-born players to sweep the three Member Leagues’ rookie-of-the-year awards in a single season.
For Hurlbert and Reid, that progression included representing Team CHL at the 2025 CHL USA Prospects Challenge. Meyer will follow them into the series this December against his former U.S. program, with NHL scouts already taking notice of his start in Québec.
After the Remparts’ home opener, one told Le Journal de Québec he was impressed by Meyer’s work ethic, edge and ability to recover pucks along the boards. Another highlighted his hands and vision.
TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button ranked Meyer fourth on his September list for the 2027 NHL Draft. He saw shades of Mark Messier in the way Meyer takes charge of a game.
“He’s a player that grabs the game by the scruff of its neck,” Button said. “You need a physical play? He’ll be physical. You need a skill play? He’ll be skilled.”
Writing for QMJHL streaming partner FloHockey, Chris Peters highlighted the intelligence behind Meyer’s play, describing him as “a highly-skilled, competitive center who can use his smarts to make a lot of plays.”
To sharpen his own game, Meyer studies Macklin Celebrini and Nikita Kucherov, an alumnus of the QMJHL’s Québec Remparts and Rouyn-Noranda Huskies. He is drawn to Celebrini’s competitiveness and changes of pace, and to the way Kucherov uses anticipation to create time and space. Learning to dictate a game with the puck is part of what he hopes to achieve in Québec.
NHL Central Scouting has selected Meyer as one of the first six players for the QMJHL Prospects Game in Gatineau. In December, he will join Seattle’s Brock England, Saginaw’s Dima Zhilkin and Saint John’s Alexis Joseph, the other early Team CHL selections from across the WHL, OHL and QMJHL, at the 2026 CHL USA Prospects Challenge presented by Primaris.
He follows a group with an impressive draft record. Of the 44 players who represented Team CHL in the event’s first two editions, 42 were subsequently drafted, including 27 in the first round.
His selection also continues a Remparts tradition. Meyer will become the club’s 22nd representative across the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game and CHL USA Prospects Challenge, following Dagenais and Charlie Morrison in last year’s series. For Québec’s newest representative, the occasion will have a particularly personal meaning.
At the Vidéotron Centre, Meyer will face a program that knows the player he was when he left. Remparts fans will be watching the player he is becoming.
The 2026 CHL USA Prospects Challenge presented by Primaris opens December 1 at the Georges-Vézina Centre in Chicoutimi before moving to the Vidéotron Centre in Québec City on December 2. Tickets are available at CHL.ca/ProspectsChallenge.
