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Upside Hockey's 2025 NHL Draft Early Rankings: The Top 96

Updated July 2024

With the fantastical 2024 NHL Draft from The Sphere in Las Vegas now in the books,  it's time to shift focus to the 2025 NHL draft class.  2024 IIHF World Men's Under-18 Championship points record-setter James Hagen (breaking Nikita Kucherov's previous record for points in a single tournament from 2011) appears to have the early lead in ranking the 2025 NHL class. Forwards Anton Frondell, and Porter Martone are hot on his heels, aiming not to let Hagen lead the race for number one all season as Macklin Celebrini and Connor Bedard have done for the last two drafts, respectively. Ivan Ryabkin, Roger McQueen, and Michael Misa are just three more forwards from this draft class that surely have NHL scouts excited for the upcoming season.

Our mammoth quintessential spreadsheet format for the rankings is composed by the incomparable Chief of Scouting, E-Mac. Be sure to check back throughout the season as we add many tabs/sheets (subjects along the bottom) to this spreadsheet. There will be too many cool features to list; explore yourself. We will also have in-depth scouting profiles from our scout Sandman embedded/linked within the rankings spreadsheet eventually. When added, they will under the second column "UH" (Upside Hockey) - simply click on that to be taken to that respective profile. For the 2024 NHL draft, we completed over 240!  Also, as time goes on, scroll over to the right to view selected video links to do your own armchair scouting. See our rankings from the 2024 NHL draft to see what's in store as the season unfolds.

For optimal viewing, 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). 

For more examples of our in-depth prospect profiles and prospect tiers, check out their upside on our 2024 NHL Draft Prospect Profile page. We'll be setting up a specific page for the 2025 draft as well.  We'll also be adding mock drafts throughout the season and maybe even this offseason.

Please enjoy and, as always, we appreciate any feedback from all of you Upsiders.

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Upside Hockey's 2025 NHL Draft Prospect Profiles

Under Construction - coming soon; in the mean time, catch up or review our 2024 in-depth profiles:

Link: https://bit.ly/2024nhldraftprofiles