Sportsnet's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings: March Edition

[viper0220]

Is the same thing that happened to Shane Wright, going to happen to James Hagens, where he drops?

Sportsnet's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings: March Edition

With regular seasons winding down and important playoff viewings around the corner for scouts, Sam Cosentino gives his latest ranking of the top 32 prospects for the 2025 NHL Draft.

www.sportsnet.ca

 

[Mathieukferland]

Is the same thing that happened to Shane Wright, going to happen to James Hagens, where he drops?

Sportsnet's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings: March Edition

With regular seasons winding down and important playoff viewings around the corner for scouts, Sam Cosentino gives his latest ranking of the top 32 prospects for the 2025 NHL Draft.

www.sportsnet.ca

Eiserman’s drop is more similar to Wright, physically developed earlier than their peers and seemingly outward attitude issues.

Hagens is a bit more of a curious case that doesn’t bare much resemblance to Wright, I don’t think my idea of his floor has changed that much but I think he’s not been very dynamic at the new level and relies too heavily on his playmaking to get the puck to difficult areas rather than with strength and pace. That has lowered my idea of his ceiling, but let’s be clear we’re still talking about someone who is still a good bet to be a top 6 NHL forward

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Sam Cosentino has never seen an American hockey player he liked. I'm shocked he's low on Hagens.

 

[Just Linda]

Is the same thing that happened to Shane Wright, going to happen to James Hagens, where he drops?

Sportsnet's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings: March Edition

With regular seasons winding down and important playoff viewings around the corner for scouts, Sam Cosentino gives his latest ranking of the top 32 prospects for the 2025 NHL Draft.

www.sportsnet.ca

I'm friends with someone who works for an NHL club in scouting. I asked him 'what does your team see Hagens as?'. His response was that he believes his team wouldn't use a top 6 pick on Hagens, he believes they would prioritize the skillsets of other players before him.

I think we need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that Hagens falls out of the top 5.

 

[SympathyForTheDevils]

I'm friends with someone who works for an NHL club in scouting. I asked him 'what does your team see Hagens as?'. His response was that he believes his team wouldn't use a top 6 pick on Hagens, he believes they would prioritize the skillsets of other players before him.

I think we need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that Hagens falls out of the top 5.

While I'm sure this is true, I'm sure this is also true of Martone, Frondell, and everyone predicted to be picked in that 3-5 range. This year, every top prospect that isn't Schaefer or Misa has big enough warts to make teams potentially look elsewhere.

Team lists just diverge a lot more from public "consensus" than fans generally think. There's probably teams that would pick him at 2, and others that wouldn't pick him in the top 10. But ultimately I wouldn't bet on him dropping out of the top 5.

 

[ORRFForever]

At the end of the day, where some one is picked matters little.

Shane Wright going 4th had no affect on his performance - I, for one, am pleased that he is doing as well as he is - 40 points in 67 games this season playing less than 14 minutes a game at the age of 21.

Anyway, I counted 20 Canadian kids in the first round. 20 seems to be the over/under on most lists.

 

[frontsfan67]

Eiserman’s drop is more similar to Wright, physically developed earlier than their peers and seemingly outward attitude issues.

Hagens is a bit more of a curious case that doesn’t bare much resemblance to Wright, I don’t think my idea of his floor has changed that much but I think he’s not been very dynamic at the new level and relies too heavily on his playmaking to get the puck to difficult areas rather than with strength and pace. That has lowered my idea of his ceiling, but let’s be clear we’re still talking about someone who is still a good bet to be a top 6 NHL forward

As a guy who has met both in junior- nice guys. Neither with attitude issues.

 

[Habsrule]

I always love reading people’s mock drafts or draft rankings. I don’t like to knit pick them because it is just someone else’s opinion versus mine.

One thing that stuck out to me is Lakovic at #27. Someone of that size and that skill won’t last until 27.

Yes I question his work ethic very much but that size and skill combo won’t last until #27.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

In what world is this a bad season? So tired of hearing this lazy narrative. It's simply not true and people should stop pushing it. The people that claim this have an agenda that doesn't align with who the best hockey players are or are gullible and being fooled by those with the agenda.