The Athletic's Corey Pronman's FINAL Draft Big Board

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NHL Draft 2025 ranking: Matthew Schaefer leads Corey Pronman’s top 125 prospects list

Corey Pronman
June 10, 2025

Today, we release my final big board for the 2025 NHL Draft. I may make some mild tweaks after going to Dan Milstein’s camp and seeing some of the top Russians, but for the most part, this is the end product after getting as much information as possible from last week’s NHL Scouting Combine and throughout the season.

As the season went along, the 2025 draft class began to look better. It’s still a slightly below-average group, without true star power at the top other than Erie’s Matthew Schaefer, but this top 10 group projects to produce numerous high-quality NHL forwards.

Ranked players are placed into tiers and given tool grades. Tool grades are based on a scale with six separate levels, with an eye toward how this attribute would grade in the NHL (poor, below-average, average, above-average, high-end and elite). “Average” on this scale means the tool projects as NHL average, which is meant as a positive, not a criticism. Skating, puck skills, hockey sense and compete for every projected NHL player are graded. Shot grades are only included if a shot is notably good or poor.

Player comparables are my best attempt at giving readers an idea of what I think these prospects could realistically become in the NHL.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/641376 ... s-pronman/

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The Athletic's NHL draft content continues to be free.

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NHL Draft 2025 ranking: Matthew Schaefer leads Corey Pronman’s top 125 prospects list

Corey Pronman
June 10, 2025

Today, we release my final big board for the 2025 NHL Draft. I may make some mild tweaks after going to Dan Milstein’s camp and seeing some of the top Russians, but for the most part, this is the end product after getting as much information as possible from last week’s NHL Scouting Combine and throughout the season.

As the season went along, the 2025 draft class began to look better. It’s still a slightly below-average group, without true star power at the top other than Erie’s Matthew Schaefer, but this top 10 group projects to produce numerous high-quality NHL forwards.

Ranked players are placed into tiers and given tool grades. Tool grades are based on a scale with six separate levels, with an eye toward how this attribute would grade in the NHL (poor, below-average, average, above-average, high-end and elite). “Average” on this scale means the tool projects as NHL average, which is meant as a positive, not a criticism. Skating, puck skills, hockey sense and compete for every projected NHL player are graded. Shot grades are only included if a shot is notably good or poor.

Player comparables are my best attempt at giving readers an idea of what I think these prospects could realistically become in the NHL.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/641376 ... s-pronman/

While I don't completely agree with the players that he has in his Tier system, I wholeheartedly agree that there's not a lot of separation (very little) from picks 10 to about 21... While I like others a bit more than some, it's not a bad draft to be sitting at 19 instead of like 12...