Rosling and Sklenicka were added to the event as injury replacements.
Defenceman Darian Rolsing and goaltender Marek Sklenicka will be headed to the 2026 WHL Prospects Game later this week. Both will be representing Team West at the inaugural event and were added as injury replacements. Rolsing will be replacing Vancouver Giants defenceman Ryan Lin, while Sklenicka will sub in for Wenatchee Wild goaltender Tobias Tvrznik.
Rolsing is in his first WHL season and is ranked 158th among North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting. The Wild defenceman is listed at 6'6", 185 lbs and represents Germany internationally. This season, Rolsing has five points in 49 games along with 24 penalty minutes.
As for Sklenicka, he is ranked eighth by NHL Central Scouting among North American goaltenders. Like Rolsing, the 2025-26 season is Sklenicka's first in the WHL. This year, the 17-year-old from Czechia has a 14-11-4 record with a .889 save percentage and one shutout in 32 games.
Darian Rolsing of the Wenatchee Wild (Photo Credit: Tri-City Americans)The 2026 WHL Prospects Game will serve as the first all-WHL event of its kind since January 19, 2000, when Kelowna hosted the 2000 WHL All-Star Game, in which the Eastern Conference defeated the Western Conference by a score of 10-8 in front of 5,420 fans at Prospera Place. Since the WHL was established in 1966-67, there have been 26 previous WHL all-star or top prospects-style events. Vancouver last hosted a WHL All-Star Game on January 19, 1972, when the East Division defeated the West Division by a 4-2 margin.
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