Prospect Info: 2025 Draft: We are #1….1

[HandshakeLine]

I don't know either player and won't pretend to, but I like the idea of drafting for skill this year (be it offensive or physical) rather than completeness.

 

[SEALBound]

This ranking has Eklund at #4 and Martin at #22…eyes of the beholder lol…Bear is very high up

2025 NHL Draft Rankings: Ferrari's Post-Lottery Top 64

One week after the NHL’s draft lottery decided which franchise received the first-overall pick, it’s time for a new round of draft rankings.

thehockeynews.com

I'm not going to claim I know the drafting order but those rankings are a bit wild for me. Some of them are so far from the typical consensus that it's hard to take serious. I think Martin goes WELL before 22. Desnoyers at 16 is odd but I can definitely see McQueen at 17 if other scouts/GMs are like me (and most of us here) and are skittish on his injury.

I just hope that list is what every other GM has but Dubas has my list

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

It's probably not gonna happen cuz it's just as much of an NHL coaching issue as it is a Sully issue, but I would love for this team to have some specialists again. Dude sucks defensively but rips one-timers? Sick. Dude's a non-factor offensively or in transition but he's gonna bury somebody into the third row if they go near the crease or into the corner? Hell yeah.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Rankings =\= mock draft

It is ok to put Cullen Potter 6th on your list and him get drafted 27th. Or vice versa.

HP always talks about how shocking NHL team lists would be to fans.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

It's probably not gonna happen cuz it's just as much of an NHL coaching issue as it is a Sully issue, but I would love for this team to have some specialists again. Dude sucks defensively but rips one-timers? Sick. Dude's a non-factor offensively or in transition but he's gonna bury somebody into the third row if they go near the crease or into the corner? Hell yeah.

What? You don't like having a roster constructed entirely out of milquetoast, aggressively average players with no standout skills aside from like two guys?

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

What? You don't like having a roster constructed entirely out of milquetoast, aggressively average players with no standout skills aside from like two guys?

Just say some dumb shit like swiss army knife and you've got Yohe licking your boot, baybeeeeee!

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Just say some dumb shit like swiss army knife and you've got Yohe licking your boot, baybeeeeee!

"He's a hardnosed player with some size and edge (no he isn't) who plays a fast, high-tempo, responsible game (hahahaha) and will provide yet another lynchpin for the Penguins penalty kill (he can't score for shit). Penguins fans will love that he brings a multitude of tools to the middle six (oh god he's worse than we thought) and all that for a minimal amount of risk in regards to contract flexibility (they paid him 3M a year for five years to come here)."

You can copy/paste that if you want for your puff piece on the next useless slug they bring in here, Josh.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

"He knows how to win." Is one of my faves.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

"He knows how to win." Is one of my faves.

BOY COULDA FOOLED ME

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

BOY COULDA FOOLED ME

Hey man, Harkins knows how to win. Just do the exact opposite of literally everything he does on and off the ice.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Hey man, Harkins knows how to win. Just do the exact opposite of literally everything he does on and off the ice.

They were taught by the master himself and as a result they DO know how to win... they just don't feel like telling you - peon that you are.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

"He knows how to win." Is one of my faves.

"He plays the game the right way."

As opposed to how? He doesn't play hockey with a football?

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

"He plays the game the right way."

As opposed to how? He doesn't play hockey with a football?

They play with their sticks blade side down.

I mean... not that it makes a difference if they do or don't.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

They play with their sticks blade side down.

I mean... not that it makes a difference if they do or don't.

I still have yet to see proof this was the case with Harkins.

 

[Freeptop]

So, I was putzing around and realized that almost all of the picks the Pens have accumulated for 2025 are from teams who are already locked in place in their order (only exception is the 2nd round pick from the Capitals).

This means that, pending any possible compensatory picks, we basically know where the Pens are picking through the entire draft:

011/1
012/1 (conditional pick from Rangers for Petterson and O'Connor)
XXX/2 (from Capitals for Beauvillier)
073/3
084/3 (from Wild via Predators as part of trade for Glass)
085/3 (from Sens via Blues in exchange of picks for Blues to get their own pick back)
105/4
130/5 (from 'Hawks via Caps in Eller trade)
148/5 (worse of Rangers/Wild, from Rangers in Reilly Smith trade; so they're getting the Wild's pick)
169/6
201/7

Not really much use to knowing, but it's kind of funny to realize that after the first round, all those teams' positions are already fixed.