How Oscar Fisker Mølgaard's elevated himself to a top prospect in the 2023 NHL Draft

Oscar Fisker Mølgaard postponed our first interview. 

He’d just turned 18, he was studying to get his driver's license in Sweden. The test was coming up, studying, understandably, took precedent. 

So how'd he do?

“I aced it," Mølgaard said a couple days later. 

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the Danish forward’s progress over the past couple of years. Acing tests is what he does. No matter the competition, the environment, and the demands placed on him, he always seems to find ways to excel. 

Mølgaard spent much of his youth playing in Denmark, before moving to Jönköping, Sweden to join HV71. They offered him a tougher competition, an occasion to play against “four good lines every night and take steps forward as a player,” while being relatively close to his famil