Upside Hockey's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings: November Edition Top 96

[UpsideHockey]

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Upside Hockey's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings:
November Edition via our@SubstackInc eNewsletter/post:

Top 96 ranked with ~350 prospects included along with NHL Central Scouting prospects of interest (2nd column).

Upside Hockey's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings: November Edition

Our Top 96 Prospects with NHL Central Scouting's Players to Watch

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[spikethedog]

Let us know if the videos attached to most of the top 2 round prospects are useful. They were added to give you the ability to view a prospect on your own so you could access for yourself.

 

[ORRFForever]

NEW

Upside Hockey's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings:
November Edition via our@SubstackInc eNewsletter/post:

Top 96 ranked with ~350 prospects included along with NHL Central Scouting prospects of interest (2nd column).

Upside Hockey's 2025 NHL Draft Rankings: November Edition

Our Top 96 Prospects with NHL Central Scouting's Players to Watch

upsidehockey.substack.com

Well done. It's gonna be a heck of a Canadian draft. I count 19 Canucks on your list.

How close is someone/anyone to overtaking Hagens as the 1OA?

 

[jtechkid]

my only view is basically lot of all mock drafts have the same players . not really that interesting - statistically it can’t be that easy so need do some scouting with some outliers in the draft .

 

[UpsideHockey]

"Our mammoth quintessential rankings spreadsheet format is composed by the incomparable Chief of Scouting, Eldon MacDonald. We have already featured nearly 350 prospects. Check back throughout the season as we add many tabs/sheets (subjects along the bottom) to this spreadsheet. In this edition, in the second column we have highlighted NHL Central Scouting's preliminary players to watch. "

Direct link to our 2025 Draft HQ on Upside:

UPSIDE - 2025 NHL Draft Rankings

Upside Hockey's 2025 NHL Draft Headquarters

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[UpsideHockey]

Well done. It's gonna be a heck of a Canadian draft. I count 19 Canucks on your list.

How close is someone/anyone to overtaking Hagens as the 1OA?

At this point, I'd say there is a realistic chance that he gets overtaken - Misa and Schaefer making super strong cases with Martone having to be intriguing as well. I don't know what percentage I'd give it right now - have to give that some thought...anyone got a number in mind?


I also wanted to highlight:
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Viewing Tips​

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From our 2025 NHL Draft Rankings HQ at Upside Hockey, here are our tips for viewing the full rankings:

For optimal viewing on smartphone or tablet, turn your phone to landscape view; columns in the spreadsheet are frozen (i.e. won't move) up to and including the first column of linked videos, thus scroll through the spreadsheet rankings by swiping on the right side of this information-packed resource.

You can open up the spreadsheet rankings to a separate page by clicking the icon in the upper right-hand corner. This should open up the spreadsheet and you can select "open with" your platform of choice (Google Sheets works well)."

"too many cool features to list; explore yourself with this top of mind:

• Our exclusive rankings go well beyond the first round - nearly 350 prospects included in this version
  • 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 via YouTube)
• Unique prospect analyses"

 

[jtechkid]

No moore in first round?

 

[UpsideHockey]

No moore in first round?

38th in our November rankings, but wait...there's more incoming (stay tuned for our alternative rankings by prospect profiler Trevor Curtis ; ) - I'll be posting soon. Think you'll like his placement there. And there's plenty of hockey to be played...

He is alsoin our top 8 centres for the draft:

2025 NHL Draft: Center of Interest

Who are the top centers available in this draft class?

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[UpsideHockey]

No moore in first round?

icymi: other thread w/ our alt. rankings: 2025 NHL Draft Rankings: Sandman's Winter is Coming Edition - Top 100

 

[UpsideHockey]

Not sure if I previously shared:

2025 NHL Draft First Round Challengers​

Hockey prospects potentially available at the end of the first round​

2025 NHL Draft First Round Challengers

Hockey prospects potentially available at the end of the first round

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[Intangir]

First wanted to congratulate you guys on the list. It's very well-made.

There's also a lot that I don't agree with in this list, which is pretty much par for the course for prospect evaluations, but the most immediately obvious stuff is that I really think you guys are ranking McQueen too high.

I've watched his games this year in the WHL and I just don't think he'll be a center in the NHL, and I'm also not a fan of his vision and playmaking ability.

Then you add-in the herniated disk last year and the back injury again this season and even if he gets a clean bill of health going forward McQueen's ranking has to take that into consideration.

Given all of that I really don't think McQueen should rank high in the top-10, and actually think he should spend some time at the bottom of that top-10 until he's back and proves he's healthy again.

Oh, and I also understand keeping Ryabkin's rankings relatively high given that he was dynamite offensively last year in the MHL. But this year he's looked completely disinterested and lazy on the ice, whether it was in the VHL or the MHL.

I know that Ryabkin's also battled some injuries a bit to start the year, but given what he's showed this season I really don't think he's worth a top-10 spot right now. I'd personally have him right outside of that top-10, still honoring the ridiculous level of skill and offense he showed in seasons past while also acknowledging that Ryabkin's played really poorly to start the year.

Last thing I wanted to mention was Nathan Behm.

He's producing a lot in the WHL, and he has some good tools, but I think Behm's skating is quite bad and that he seems to lose more steam than is normal when his shifts on the ice grow longer, meaning that maybe the skating issues run deeper than is immediately apparent (and that he hides it with hustle) or that he has conditioning issues.

Either way, with these flaws in mind I wouldn't be confident at all with ranking Behm in the upper point of the second-round, nevermind the first.

 

[dyldude]

I know that Ryabkin's also battled some injuries a bit to start the year, but given what he's showed this season I really don't think he's worth a top-10 spot right now. I'd personally have him right outside of that top-10, still honoring the ridiculous level of skill and offense he showed in seasons past while also acknowledging that Ryabkin's played really poorly to start the year.

He's actually been healthy all year.