who are your favorite goalie prospects for 2025 draft?

[neelynugs]

always one of my favorite topics when nerding out over the draft. while the overall draft is kinda meh,
it seems like a pretty solid goalie crop.

1) who's your #1 goalie in this draft?

2) who are your top 10 ranked goalies?

3) who's your biggest sleeper goalie in this draft?

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[Hockeyville USA]

Pyotr Andreyanov is my favorite goalie prospect in this draft. Alexei Medvedev is my biggest sleeper, haven't done a deep dive to give a top 10 ranking.

 

[MasterMatt25]

Joshua Ravensbergen

HMs Jack Ivankovic and Love Harenstam

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

1. Josh Ravensbergen: He’s the top guy. I feel confident about that. I have him as a first rounder because it’s a weaker draft, but I don’t feel completely confident he’s a first rounder most years. His profile reminds me a little of Cossa.

2-10:

2. Pyotr Andreyanov
3. Semyon Frolov
4. Love Harenstam

These three are roughly second rounders for me, although Love could drop out my next update. Andreyanov and Frolov are viewed as the two top Russians this year. The Russians seem to like what they bring and they are producing good stats. Andreyanov has a little more upside in my opinion, even though he’s shorter. It’d be nice if they were playing in international tournaments, but the top Russian goalies are a safe bet in the draft. Love isn’t having a good season and he’s not grown to as tall as you might’ve thought (only like 6’1), but I think he’s okay. I don’t think he’s as bad as this season. I still think he has a chance to make the NHL.

5-7:
Elijah Neuenschwander
Lucas Beckman
Aleksei Medvedev

I don’t have an order for these three yet, but they’re part of my honorable mentions. Neuenswander played WJC this year and made some great saves for a big guy. Beckman is having a big year in the Q, but relatively unproven. Medvedev plays for the best team in junior hockey. Is he a product of the team?

8-9:

Patrick Quinlan
Jack Ivankovic

No order for these two. Smaller goaltenders not having the best seasons. Quinlan is a little bigger (6'1), but worse numbers. Ivankovic has a great pedigree, but you can't be a high pick at 5'11-6'0 with those stats.

10. Ryan Cameron

Murdered the NAHL this year. Was the US starter at the Hlinka. Not really tested and small (6'1), but you're hoping to find the next Slukynsky or Hendrickson (now to hin).

Overagers:

Petteri Rimpinen
Kam Hendrickson

I don’t like combining first time eligibles and re-draft guys, but these two look like clear picks to me this year. They probably should’ve been picked last year. Both having big seasons in their respective leagues, and Rimpinen had a good WJC.

Other potential draftable goaltenders:

Owen Bresson
Ondrej Stebetak
Roberto Leonardo Henriquez
Andrei Trofimov

 

[neelynugs]

Other potential draftable goaltenders:

Owen Bresson
Ondrej Stebetak
Roberto Leonardo Henriquez
Andrei Trofimov

good list for the top 10...i also like samuel meloche and patrik kerkola.

as for leo (RLH), great start in green bay for him. i expect he'll be working his way up the rankings in short order.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

good list for the top 10...i also like samuel meloche and patrik kerkola.

as for leo (RLH), great start in green bay for him. i expect he'll be working his way up the rankings in short order.

Meloche is a good call. Simply forgot about him.

Kerkola has had a brutal season. Could argue he’s not been that much worse than Harenstam and Ivankovic, for instance, so maybe someone else would want to be more kind to him than I am.

 

[LeProspector]

An under the radar kid I’m pretty high on is 6’7” goalie Trenten Bennett.

 

[frontsfan67]

An under the radar kid I’m pretty high on is 6’7” goalie Trenten Bennett.

I second this. And according to elite prospects guy is 6’8 now. Only problem is he is a dy+1 prospect mainly playing in the CCHL this year which isn’t a good league and on top of that doesn’t have the best numbers in that league but has done well in the OHL oddly enough in his 5 games.

Next year should be the backup to Carter George but George is so good he may not get many games. IMO should go ask for a trade to a team he knows he will play with and next year in his dy+2 (19yo) season hopefully gets lots of minutes before going NCAA in 2026/27

Could be a project goalie but one thing teams can’t teach is size and he has lots of that.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I’m sorry, but an overager with 5 games in a junior league? Not remotely interesting.

And you’d think NHL teams would learn that these basketball sized goaltenders are not the way to go. The way you score in the NHL is passes across the slot. Goaltenders nowadays need to be able to move laterally to defend that. The strategy of “let’s get the biggest volume of person as possible into the net” seems naive and simplistic.