Wheeler's Post U-18 Draft List

[Corso]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6285044/2025/05/05/nhl-draft-2025-ranking-schaefer-misa-lottery/

Hagens in the number 3 spot, Frondell at 6 and Brady Martin climbs to number 10.

You can tell how Wheeler doesn't really pay all that much attention to D-1 players as his "way to early list" was a total miss.........

2025 NHL Draft top 28 prospects ranking: James Hagens leads Scott Wheeler’s early list

An early look at the top prospects in the 2025 NHL Draft class.

www.nytimes.com

Pronman did his post draft lottery mock draft as well

NHL Mock Draft 2025: Matthew Schaefer to Islanders as we pick for every lottery team

Following the lottery, a collection of our NHL reporters combined for a mock draft of the first 16 picks.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Sombastate]

If the Flyers drop to 6 and still end up with Frondell, i'm happy.

I think they are far more likely to choose O'brien in this situation, but we shall see

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6285044/2025/05/05/nhl-draft-2025-ranking-schaefer-misa-lottery/

Hagens in the number 3 spot, Frondell at 6 and Brady Martin climbs to number 10.

You can tell how Wheeler doesn't really pay all that much attention to D-1 players as his "way to early list" was a total miss.........

2025 NHL Draft top 28 prospects ranking: James Hagens leads Scott Wheeler’s early list

An early look at the top prospects in the 2025 NHL Draft class.

www.nytimes.com

Pronman did his post draft lottery mock draft as well

NHL Mock Draft 2025: Matthew Schaefer to Islanders as we pick for every lottery team

Following the lottery, a collection of our NHL reporters combined for a mock draft of the first 16 picks.

www.nytimes.com

This is a mock draft done by The Athletic staff with the beat writers picking for the teams they cover. Pronman organizes the whole things and adds his insights.

All thought this was an interesting tidbit from the article “McQueen is regarded as an even better pro prospect than Lindstrom was.”

 

[Giant Panda]

This is a mock draft done by The Athletic staff with the beat writers picking for the teams they cover. Pronman organizes the whole things and adds his insights.

All thought this was an interesting tidbit from the article “McQueen is regarded as an even better pro prospect than Lindstrom was.”

I don't think that's a controversial statement at all.

McQueen was nearly a point per game player as a 16 year old, Lindstrom had about 40 pts in 60 games that year. McQueen was a fair better better prospect going into their draft years. Neither played that year with a great supporting team, their teams were more or less on the same level of production.

Healthy McQueen could have been pushing for the top spot in this year's draft, healthy McQueen would've been a top 5 pick this year. I really don't see him dropping outside of the top 10.

 

[johnnystormcgy]

I don't think that's a controversial statement at all.

McQueen was nearly a point per game player as a 16 year old, Lindstrom had about 40 pts in 60 games that year. McQueen was a fair better better prospect going into their draft years. Neither played that year with a great supporting team, their teams were more or less on the same level of production.

Healthy McQueen could have been pushing for the top spot in this year's draft, healthy McQueen would've been a top 5 pick this year. I really don't see him dropping outside of the top 10.

McQueen also outplayed Lindstrom at the U17's.