Welcome to my 2025 NHL Draft board!
This final top 100 ranking, presented and packaged within our sortable user interface, follows my way-too-early top 28, my preseason top 32, my preliminary top 64, my February top 64, my March top 64 and my May top 64.
My year-end ranking is made up of 66 forwards (36 centers, 16 right wingers, 14 left wingers), 28 defensemen (15 righties, 13 lefties) and six goalies. Those numbers are indicative of a deep draft class down the middle and a thin crop of defensemen.
The 2025 draft is led by a D, though, with Erie’s Matthew Schaefer ranking atop my board. Centers Michael Misa, James Hagens, Caleb Desnoyers, Anton Frondell, Jake O’Brien, Brady Martin and Roger McQueen, wingers Porter Martone…