Draft 2025 NHL Draft Prospects & Undrafted Free Agents

[UnSandvich]

tbh if im bottoming out, i could care less about Hagens. He's an Islanders fan anyway.

I want McKenna

 

[RangersFan1994]

tbh if im bottoming out, i could care less about Hagens. He's an Islanders fan anyway.

I want McKenna

Chemistry matters more in hockey.

 

[Lion Hound]

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Pronman Changing his tune on 1OA.

Corey Pronman

NHL Draft 2025 top prospects: Porter Martone ranks No. 1, James Hagens drops to No. 2

Boston College center James Hagens and Brampton Steelheads winger Porter Martone are neck and neck for me in the first-overall pick conversation, as they were entering the season.

Hagens is a smaller but dynamic play-driving center, and Martone is a highly skilled big winger with a lot of athleticism. It’s not completely analogous, but their skill sets and positions remind me of how Logan Cooley was contrasted to Juraj Slafkovský ahead of the 2022 NHL Draft. I leaned Hagens entering the year; today I lean Martone, and my lean could change in my next update. I have Erie defenseman Matthew Schaefer at No. 3 on my list, but he’s in the conversation to go No. 1 or 2 in part due to the fact that there is a giant chasm between him and the next-best defense prospect in this class.

 

[I Eat Crow]

This team should be drafting only centers and LHD the next two years.

 

[Lion Hound]

This team should be drafting only centers and LHD the next two years.

No doubt they need Centers. Personally i would rather Hagens. He literally is from my neighborhood. Would be amazing to see a Hauppauge kid go 1OA.

Some of the draft specialists are changing their tune on 1OA. Not a 1 man show anymore. Turning into a 3 horse race.

 

[I Eat Crow]

No doubt they need Centers. Personally i would rather Hagens. He literally is from my neighborhood. Would be amazing to see a Hauppauge kid go 1OA.

Some of the draft specialists are changing their tune on 1OA. Not a 1 man show anymore. Turning into a 3 horse race.

Agreed. Martone's numbers as a D-1 are getting harder and harder to ignore. Don't think 1st overall good but top 3 for sure. I still expect the top 3 to go Hagens, Schaefer, and Martone barring a huge or disappointing WJC from one or two of them.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

By any miracle, get me Misa.

Or Frondell.

 

[GAGLine]

Chemistry matters more in hockey.

I don't think we're drafting either Hagens or McKenna, so it's moot, but Perreault has played all of 16 games with Hagens, and not all of them on the same line. I'm pretty sure that, in the very unlikely event that we draft McKenna, Perreault would be able to build chemistry with him.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

A lot will change but I get a kick out of the idea that in a season where the Rangers might be bad and have a high pick, the potential number 1 prospect is a big winger.

Like god, can’t one of these times be a sure fire 1C lmao

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

pronman is a dolt

By any miracle, get me Misa.

Or Frondell.

Schaefer.

Misa is nasty and will go way later than he should though.

 

[RangersFan1994]

A lot will change but I get a kick out of the idea that in a season where the Rangers might be bad and have a high pick, the potential number 1 prospect is a big winger.

Like god, can’t one of these times be a sure fire 1C lmao

Whenever the Rangers draft centers regardless of two way players, top end talent or bottom line forwards like MCConnell-Barker, Rempe, Korczak, this team moves them to wing. Cant wait for them to do this with Laba. That is. Rangers scouting issue. Shocked they never moved Chytil to winger full time.