2025 NHL Draft Thread

[icarus]

Originally Posted by cral12

Scout's Analysis: Ranking the top 80 prospects for the 2025 NHL Draft
SN's Jason Bukala

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...025-nhl-draft/

He's got Cootes-Kindel-Reschny at 15, 16, 17. There's not much separating those three centres in terms of size.

You do wonder if the Flames would favour Kindel given their familiarity and number of viewings? Probably most of the Flames scouts have seen him play in person, when they've been in Calgary for meetings and whatnot. And the Hanlon promotion might suggest Conroy prefers the known and familiar to the unknown.

Then again, Flames haven't drafted a Hitman in a decade (Karnaukhov), and before that it had been 15 years, back when the draft was last in Calgary (Kraun, Davis). Edmonton and Vancouver have each drafted as many Hitmen as the Flames have.

[ForeverFlameFan]

Originally Posted by icarus

He's got Cootes-Kindel-Reschny at 15, 16, 17. There's not much separating those three centres in terms of size.

You do wonder if the Flames would favour Kindel given their familiarity and number of viewings? Probably most of the Flames scouts have seen him play in person, when they've been in Calgary for meetings and whatnot. And the Hanlon promotion might suggest Conroy prefers the known and familiar to the unknown.

Then again, Flames haven't drafted a Hitman in a decade (Karnaukhov), and before that it had been 15 years, back when the draft was last in Calgary (Kraun, Davis). Edmonton and Vancouver have each drafted as many Hitmen as the Flames have.

I would be so disappointed if we lost out on all 3 of those players at our pick.

[The Original FFIV]

Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan

I would be so disappointed if we lost out on all 3 of those players at our pick.

I would not be shocked if all 3 are available at our pick and if all 3 are still available after our pick.

PTSD maybe but these guys read a lot like Morgan klimchuk did. Tweener centers that do a lot of things well but nothing exceptionally well.

I did hear an interview that said cootes plays like his hair is on fire which hit my attention. But I hope we draft a player with a more projectable frame than any of these 3. If upside is middle six you are probably looking at 3rd line. Need to do better than that with our first.

[TheScorpion]

Had a lot of fun talking to Byron Bader tonight about the 2025 draft. Had some weird tech issues early on so don't mind the flashing in the first few minutes, it does go away. Enjoy (especially if you're a huge nerd)

https://www.youtube.com/live/2AQDRXV...w3Fl6uXMnzbGwx

[Sandman]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Had a lot of fun talking to Byron Bader tonight about the 2025 draft. Had some weird tech issues early on so don't mind the flashing in the first few minutes, it does go away. Enjoy (especially if you're a huge nerd)

https://www.youtube.com/live/2AQDRXV...w3Fl6uXMnzbGwx

Excellent work, Scorp! Very entertaining!

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by cral12

Scout's Analysis: Ranking the top 80 prospects for the 2025 NHL Draft
SN's Jason Bukala

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...025-nhl-draft/

Bukala loves to stir it and try to stand out, Desnoyers to #2, Frondell to #6

[devo22]

Desnoyers at 2 obviously an outlier, but Frondell at 6 doesn't really stand out, no? Wheeler has him at 6, Pronman has him at 6, FC has him at 7. From what I've seen, there seems to be a somewhat consensus second tier with Hagens, Desnoyers, Frondell and Martone from 3 to 6, in whatever order (probably have seen every possible iteration by now lol).

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by iloveicedhockey

I'm might have missed it (either in this thread or in the 2024 one) but did you ever compare the consensus you had last year to the actual position picked, Bingo? I did do a quick search but could only see a flames specific comparison, not first round for all.

I'm just trying to find some hope that someone will drop and we'll all be impressed with who we got at 18.

Just had a look at the 2024 version.

Consensus had Parekh as the first player in their first pick range, Basha in the 2nd 1st range, and both Mews and Gridin in the first 2nd round pick range.

1	M Celebrini	C	1.00
2	Ivan Demidov	RW	2.59
3	A Levshunov	D	4.59
4	Zeev Buium	D	5.91
5	C Lindstrom	C	7.05
6	Sam Dickinson	D	7.64
7	Zayne Parekh	D	7.77
8	Berkly Catton	C	8.00
9	Tij Iginla 	C	8.50
10	Anton Silayev	D	9.50
11	Konsta Helenius	C	10.82
12	Cole Eiserman	LW	11.41
13	C Yakemchuk	D	13.36
14	Brand-Nygard	RW	14.86
15	B Sennecke	RW	15.45
16	Liam Greentree	RW	17.64
17	I Chernyshov	LW	18.57
18	Trevor Connelly	LW	18.64
19	Michael Hage	C	18.82
20	Adam Jiricek	D	19.60
21	Sacha Boisvert	C	24.71
22	N Artamonov	LW	27.16
23	Stian Solberg	D	27.38
24	Emil Hemming	F	27.44
25	Jett Luchanko	C	27.48
26	Andrew Basha	LW	27.60
27	Ryder Ritchie	RW	29.36
28	Terik Parascak	RW	29.70
29	E.J. Emery 	D	30.71
30	Alfons Freij	D	34.06
31	Teddy Stiga	F	34.53
32	Yegor Surin	F	35.33
33	Cole Beaudoin	C	36.06
34	L Pettersson	 	36.87
35	S Wallenius	 	38.78
36	M Vanacker	 	39.17
37	Charlie Elick	D	39.47
38	Dom Badinka	 	40.00
39	Henry Mews	D	40.27
40	Aron Kiviharju	D	41.06
41	J Miettinen	 	41.67
42	Matvei Gridin	F	41.75
43	Linus Eriksson	F	41.88

[Bingo]

2025 update ...

1	M Schaefer	D	1.17

2	Michael Misa	C	2.11

3	James Hagens	C	4.00
4	Porter Martone	RW	4.39
5	Anton Frondell	C	5.33

6	C Desnoyers	C	6.17

7	Victor Eklund	LW	8.50
8	Jake O'Brien	C	9.39

9	Radim Mrtka	D	11.28
10	Jackson Smith	D	11.61
11	Brady Martin	C	11.67
12	Roger McQueen	C	11.83

13	Carter Bear	C	14.11

14	K Aitcheson	D	16.94

15	Braeden Cootes	C	17.82
16	J Carbonneau	RW	18.00
17	Lynden Lakovic	LW	18.11

18	Cole Reschny	C	20.22
19	Malcolm Spence	LW	20.71
20	Logan Hensler	D	20.78
21	Cameron Reid	D	21.12
22	Benjamin Kindel	RW	21.83

23	Cullen Potter	C	23.06

24	J Ravensbergen	G	26.33
25	Jack Nesbitt	C	26.94
26	Cam Schmidt	RW	27.38
27	Bill Zonnon	Lw	27.76
28	Blake Fiddler	D	27.88
29	S Boumedienne	D	28.67
30	Ivan Ryabkin	C	30.20
31	Milton Gästrin	C	30.41
32	Jack Murtagh	C	32.94
33	William Moore	C	33.15
34	J Ihs-Wozniak	RW	34.07
35	Cole McKinney	C	35.93
36	H Brzustewicz	D	36.25
37	Shane Vansaghi	C	37.27
38	Ryker Lee	   RW	37.85
39	Eric Nilson	      C	38.62
40	Jack Ivankovic	G	40.17
41	William Horcoff	C	41.08
42	Adam Benák	C	41.10
43	Kurban Limatov	D	43.18
44	Eddie Genborg	LW	45.42
45	A Zharovsky	RW	46.00
46	Haoxi Wang	D	49.75
47	Nathan Behm	LW	49.82
48	Ethan Czata	C	52.60
49	Luca Romano	C	52.91
50	V Nestrasil	RW	53.46
51	C Trethewey	D	56.31
52	Conrad Fondrk	C	57.67
53	Benjamin Kevan	RW	57.69
54	Owen Conrad	D	58.13
55	Vojtech Cihar	LW	58.67
56	Matthew Gard	C	59.55
57	P Andreyanov	G	59.78
58	L.J. Mooney	RW	60.30
59	K Epperson	LW	60.89
60	Michal Pradel	G	63.86
61	Carter Amico	D	65.33
62	A Medvedev	G	65.89
63	Alex Huang	D	65.89
64	D Prokhorov	RW	65.91

[Jiri Hrdina]

New full draft mock from Pronman.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/642...ounds-pronman/

Flames get:
18- Reschny
31 - Gastrin
54 - Schmidt
80 - Liam Pettersson (D)
144 - Tinus Luc Koblar (great pick if only for the name!)
175 - Owen Griffin
208 - Andreas Straka

I'd be pretty happy with that.

[Ashasx]

If the Flames end up with one of Kindel or Reschny in this draft, I would be very happy.

Both would be unreal.

[HitterD]

Had the opportunity to play a summer league game against Nathan Behn last week. I can tell you one thing, he’s really really good………compared to me lol.

Anyone have a better scouting report on this Calgary kid?

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

New full draft mock from Pronman.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/642...ounds-pronman/

Flames get:
18- Reschny
31 - Gastrin
54 - Schmidt
80 - Liam Pettersson (D)
144 - Tinus Luc Koblar (great pick if only for the name!)
175 - Owen Griffin
208 - Andreas Straka

I'd be pretty happy with that.

Available when he has the Flames taking Reschny ...

Braeden Cootes
Cole Reschny
Malcolm Spence
Logan Hensler
Cameron Reid
Benjamin Kindel
Cullen Potter
Joshua Ravensbergen
Cameron Schmidt
Bill Zonnon
Blake Fiddler
Sascha Boumedienne
Ivan Ryabkin

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by HitterD

Had the opportunity to play a summer league game against Nathan Behn last week. I can tell you one thing, he’s really really good………compared to me lol.

Anyone have a better scouting report on this Calgary kid?

I'm no scout. Calgary kid played Glenlake 2007 Powerhouse with Jackson Smith. Grandpa is a very prominent Plastic Surgeon in Calgary, mom is a power skating instructor. Would train in Florida in the summers with Darryl Belfry. He is weirdly good. I remember evaluating him year after year and wondering what all the hype was about because he doesn't look amazing at anything but by the end of the game he'd have 8 points. Hands are ridiculous and smart player. Almost like a Luc Robitaille or Kristian Huselius.

I don't think he will put a team on his back like Mark Messier ever but he will put up points.

I'm usually terrible at predicting how good these players will be so take above with a grain assault.

[The Original FFIV]

From Twitter this am

Flyers GM Danny Briere on potential trade chatter leading into the NHL Draft: "It feels like everybody's trying to move up at the moment. We've said from the beginning we'd like to try to move up if it was possible. But right now, there's just not a lot of options there."

https://x.com/NHLAdamK/status/193501...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Better hope something nice falls to 18 or we drop down further and take some wild swings. Trading up could be difficult (fortunately, imho).

[ForeverFlameFan]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Had a lot of fun talking to Byron Bader tonight about the 2025 draft. Had some weird tech issues early on so don't mind the flashing in the first few minutes, it does go away. Enjoy (especially if you're a huge nerd)

https://www.youtube.com/live/2AQDRXV...w3Fl6uXMnzbGwx

Loved watching that, thanks Scorp.

I'm surprised with the size talk that Rossi didn't get briefly talked about. Also, with the "one in a million" chance of drafting 3 superstars in one draft by the same team being super low, I totally forgot about Duchene, ROR, and Barrie all being drafted in the same draft. I think it's safe to say that only happens once a decade, and the Stars got that done in 2017 with Heiskanen, Oettinger, and Robertson.

[HitterD]

Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan

Loved watching that, thanks Scorp.

I'm surprised with the size talk that Rossi didn't get briefly talked about. Also, with the "one in a million" chance of drafting 3 superstars in one draft by the same team being super low, I totally forgot about Duchene, ROR, and Barrie all being drafted in the same draft. I think it's safe to say that only happens once a decade, and the Stars got that done in 2017 with Heiskanen, Oettinger, and Robertson.

I agree that it’s rare, but it’s worth noting that the flames had a comparable haul in 2016 with Tkachuk (more consistent 100 point player than Robertson), Fox (won a Norris) and Dube, who was tracking to be a good 2C before you know what happened.

Dallas nearly did it again in 2021 with Johnston and Stankoven. I think it’s safe to say that the Flames and Stars are in the upper echelon of drafting/developing. Calgary's 2024 draft could be another beauty, and I think for teams that are very good in the drafting/developing department, more bullets in the chamber is key.

[Toast_Man]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

New full draft mock from Pronman.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/642...ounds-pronman/

Flames get:
18- Reschny
31 - Gastrin
54 - Schmidt
80 - Liam Pettersson (D)
144 - Tinus Luc Koblar (great pick if only for the name!)
175 - Owen Griffin
208 - Andreas Straka

I'd be pretty happy with that.

I'd take either Kindel or West at 31 over Gastrin. But the rest of the draft is pretty good.

[NuclearFart]

Originally Posted by fotze2

I'm no scout. Calgary kid played Glenlake 2007 Powerhouse with Jackson Smith. Grandpa is a very prominent Plastic Surgeon in Calgary, mom is a power skating instructor. Would train in Florida in the summers with Darryl Belfry. He is weirdly good. I remember evaluating him year after year and wondering what all the hype was about because he doesn't look amazing at anything but by the end of the game he'd have 8 points. Hands are ridiculous and smart player. Almost like a Luc Robitaille or Kristian Huselius.

Not like it matters, but are we talking about Allan Behm? He's a pimple popper MD (Dermatologist), not a breast inflator.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by NuclearFart

Not like it matters, but are we talking about Allan Behm? He's a pimple popper MD (Dermatologist), not a breast inflator.

Could be. I thought that was the same thing but I guess not.