Upside Hockey's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings — Preseason Edition
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2025 NHL Draft Class
With the phenomenal 2024 NHL Draft from The Sphere in Las Vegas now in the books, it's time to shift focus to the 2025 NHL draft class. 2024 IIHF World Men's Under-18 Championship points record-setter James Hagens (breaking Nikita Kucherov's previous record for points in a single tournament from 2011) appears to have the early lead in ranking the 2025 NHL class. Forwards Anton Frondell, and Porter Martone are hot on his heels, aiming not to let Hagen lead the race for number one all season as Macklin Celebrini and Connor Bedard have done for the last two drafts, respectively. Ivan Ryabkin, Roger McQueen, and Michael Misa are just three more forwards from this draft class that surely have NHL scouts excited for the upcoming season. Patrolling the blueline, Matthew Schaefer is getting a lot of attention and might just be another to displace Hagens; he's already moved up from 12th to 6th overall from our Early Rankings.
Mammoth Quintessential Rankings Spreadsheet
Our mammoth quintessential rankings spreadsheet format is composed by the incomparable Chief of Scouting, E-Mac. We have already featured nearly 300 prospects. Check back throughout the season as we add many tabs/sheets (subjects along the bottom) to this spreadsheet. There will be too many cool features to list; explore yourself with this top of mind:
Our exclusive rankings go well beyond the first round - nearly 300 prospects included in this version already!
Check out the tabs along the bottom such as Defense, Under 5'11, etc. for various unique rankings
Quick access to Elite Prospects profile linked for each prospect for updated stats - click on the respective prospect name
Videos! We've moved these just to the right of the prospect name, linking to video profiles (mostly YouTube)
Unique prospect analyses — we completed over 250 of these for the 2024 NHL draft
Screenshot — Our Current Rankings
For the full mammoth rankings spreadsheet check it out at our 2025 NHL Draft Headquarters.
