2025_NHL_Entry_Draft

2025 NHL entry draft

2025 NHL entry draft

63rd annual meeting of National Hockey League franchises to select newly eligible players

The 2025 NHL Entry Draft will be the 63rd NHL Entry Draft. The draft is expected to be held in the summer of 2025.

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Eligibility

Ice hockey players born between January 1, 2005, and September 15, 2007, are eligible for selection in the 2025 NHL Entry Draft. Additionally, un-drafted, non-North American players born in 2004 are eligible for the draft; and those players who were drafted in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, but not signed by an NHL team and who were born after June 30, 2005, are also eligible to re-enter the draft.[1]

Traded picks

The order of the 2025 Entry Draft will be finalized upon the conclusion of the 2024–25 NHL season. However, some teams have already exchanged picks for this draft via trade. These picks are listed below.

Round one

  1. The Vegas Golden Knights' first-round pick will go to the San Jose Sharks as the result of a trade on March 8, 2024, that sent Tomas Hertl and a third-round pick in 2025 and 2027 to Vegas in exchange for David Edstrom and this pick.[2]

Round two

  1. The Anaheim Ducks' second-round pick will go to the Philadelphia Flyers as the result of a trade on January 8, 2023 that sent Cutter Gauthier to Anaheim in exchange for Jamie Drysdale and this pick.[3]
  2. The Boston Bruins' second-round pick will go to the Washington Capitals as the result of a trade on February 23, 2023, that sent Garnet Hathaway and Andrei Svetlakov to Boston in exchange for Craig Smith, a first-round pick in 2023, a third-round pick in 2024 and this pick.[4]
  3. The Colorado Avalanche's second-round pick will go to the Washington Capitals as the result of a trade on February 23, 2023, that sent Lars Eller to Colorado in exchange this pick.[5]
  4. The Dallas Stars' second-round pick will go to the Chicago Blackhawks as the result of a trade on March 2, 2023, that sent Max Domi and Dylan Wells to Dallas in exchange for Anton Khudobin and this pick.[6]
  5. The Edmonton Oilers' second-round pick will go to the Utah NHL team as the result of a trade on July 7, 2022, that sent Colorado's first-round pick in 2022 to Edmonton in exchange for Zack Kassian, a first-round pick in 2022 and a third-round pick in 2024 and this pick.[7]
  6. The New York Rangers' second-round pick will go to the Utah NHL team as the result of a trade on July 13, 2022, that sent Ty Emberson to New York in exchange for Patrik Nemeth, a conditional second-round pick in 2026 and this pick.[8]
  7. The Pittsburgh Penguins' second-round pick will go to the Montreal Canadiens as the result of a trade on August 6, 2023, that sent Rem Pitlick and Mike Hoffman to Pittsburgh in exchange for Jeff Petry, Casey DeSmith, Nathan Legare and this pick.[9]
  8. The Toronto Maple Leafs' second-round pick will go to the Utah NHL team as the result of a trade on February 19, 2022, that sent Ilya Lyubushkin and Ryan Dzingel to Toronto in exchange for Nick Ritchie and this pick (being conditional at the time of the trade).[10] The condition – Arizona will receive a second-round pick in 2025 or a third-round pick in 2023, at Arizona's choice – was converted on February 24, 2023, when Arizona elected not to take Toronto's third-round pick in 2023.[11]
  9. The Winnipeg Jets' second-round pick will go to the New Jersey Devils as the result of a trade on March 8, 2024, that sent Tyler Toffoli to Winnipeg in exchange for a third-round pick in 2024 and this pick.[12]

Round three

  1. The Carolina Hurricanesꞌ third-round pick will go to the Washington Capitals as the result of a trade on March 8, 2024, that sent Evgeny Kuznetsov to Carolina in exchange for this pick.[13]
  2. The Colorado Avalanche's third-round pick will go to the Nashville Predators as the result of a trade on March 7, 2024, that sent Yakov Trenin and Graham Sward to Colorado in exchange for Jeremy Hanzel and this pick.[14]
  3. The Florida Panthers' third-round pick will go to the Ottawa Senators as the result of a trade on March 6, 2024, that sent Vladimir Tarasenko to Ottawa in exchange for a conditional fourth-round pick in 2024 and this pick.[15]
  4. The San Jose Sharks' third-round pick will go to the Vegas Golden Knights as the result of a trade on March 8, 2024, that sent David Edstrom and a first-round pick in 2025 to San Jose in exchange for Tomas Hertl, a third-round pick in 2027 and this pick.[2]
  5. The Toronto Maple Leafs' third-round pick will go to the Anaheim Ducks as the result of a trade on February 29, 2024, that sent Kirill Slepets to Toronto in exchange for this pick.[16]
  6. The Vancouver Canucks' third-round pick will go to the Montreal Canadiens as the result of a trade on September 19, 2023, that sent Casey DeSmith to Vancouver in exchange for Tanner Pearson and this pick.[17]

Round four

  1. The Boston Bruins' fourth-round pick will go to the Detroit Red Wings as the result of a trade on March 2, 2023, that sent Tyler Bertuzzi to Boston in exchange for this pick.[18]
  2. The Dallas Stars' fourth-round pick will go to the Seattle Kraken as the result of a trade on March 6, 2024, that sent Alexander Wennberg to New York in exchange for a second-round pick in 2024 and this pick (being conditional at the time of the trade).[19] The condition – Seattle will receive a fourth-round pick in 2025 if Lundkvist does not score a combined 55 points in the 2022–23 NHL season and 2023–24 NHL season[20][19] – was converted on April 17, 2024.
    The Rangers previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on September 20, 2022, that sent Nils Lundkvist to Dallas in exchange for this pick.[20]
  3. The Minnesota Wild's fourth-round pick will go to the Buffalo Sabres as the result of a trade on August 18, 2023, that sent Ilya Lyubushkin to Anaheim in exchange for this pick.[21]
    Anaheim previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on March 3, 2023, that sent John Klingberg to Minnesota in exchange for Andrej Sustr, Nikita Nesterenko and this pick.[22]
  4. The Winnipeg Jets' fourth-round pick will go to the San Jose Sharks as the result of a trade on March 3, 2023, that sent Vladislav Namestnikov to Winnipeg in exchange for this pick.[23]

Round five

  1. The Carolina Hurricanes' fifth-round pick will go to the Philadelphia Flyers as the result of a trade on August 9, 2023, that sent David Kase to Carolina in exchange for Massimo Rizzo and this pick.[24]
  2. The Chicago Blackhawks' fifth-round pick will go to the Washington Capitals as the result of a trade on March 7, 2024, that sent Joel Edmundson to Toronto in exchange for a third-round pick in 2024 and this pick.[25]
    Toronto previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on February 27, 2023, that sent Joey Anderson, Pavel Gogolev, a conditional first-round pick in 2025 and a second-round pick in 2026 to Chicago in exchange for Jake McCabe, Sam Lafferty, a conditional fifth-round pick in 2024 and this pick (being conditional at the time of the trade).[26] The condition – Toronto will receive a fifth-round pick in 2025 if McCabe plays in at least 50% of Toronto's games during the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs and at least 25% of Toronto's games during the 2023–24 NHL season[27] – was converted when McCabe played his 21st game of the season on December 14, 2023.
  3. The Minnesota Wild's fifth-round pick will go to the New York Rangers as the result of a trade on November 25, 2022, that sent Ryan Reaves to Minnesota in exchange for this pick.[28]
  4. The New Jersey Devils' fifth-round pick will go to the Dallas Stars as the result of a trade on July 1, 2023, that sent Colin Miller to New Jersey in exchange for this pick.[29]
  5. The San Jose Sharks' fifth-round pick will go to the Florida Panthers as the result of a trade on July 1, 2023, that sent Anthony Duclair to San Jose in exchange for Steven Lorentz and this pick.[30]
  6. The Toronto Maple Leafs' fifth-round pick will go to the Minnesota Wild as the result of a trade on February 18, 2023, that sent Ryan O'Reilly to Colorado in exchange for this pick.[31]

Round six

No traded picks for this round

Round seven

  1. The Minnesota Wild's seventh-round pick will go to the Tampa Bay Lightning as the result of a trade on November 8, 2023, that sent Zach Bogosian to Minnesota in exchange for this pick.[32]
  2. The Nashville Predators' seventh-round pick will go to the Buffalo Sabres as the result of a trade on March 3, 2023, that sent Rasmus Asplund to Nashville in exchange for this pick.[33]
  3. The New Jersey Devils' seventh-round pick will go to the San Jose Sharks as the result of a trade on March 8, 2024, that sent Kaapo Kahkonen to New Jersey in exchange for Vitek Vanecek and this pick.[34]
  4. The San Jose Sharksꞌ seventh-round pick will go to the Tampa Bay Lightning as the result of a trade on March 7, 2024, that sent Jack Thompson and a third-round pick in 2024 to San Jose in exchange for Anthony Duclair and this pick.[35]
  5. The St. Louis Blues' seventh-round pick will go to the Detroit Red Wings as the result of a trade on March 3, 2023, that sent Jakub Vrana to St. Louis in exchange for Dylan McLaughlin and this pick.[36]
  6. The Utah NHL teamꞌs seventh-round pick will go to the Tampa Bay Lightning as the result of a trade on March 8, 2024, that sent a fifth-round pick in 2027 to Arizona in exchange for Matt Dumba and this pick.[37]
  7. The Vegas Golden Knights' seventh-round pick will go to the Columbus Blue Jackets as the result of a trade on March 2, 2023, that sent Jonathan Quick to Vegas in exchange for Michael Hutchinson and this pick.[38]
  8. The Washington Capitals' seventh-round pick will go to the Buffalo Sabres as the result of a trade on March 8, 2024, that sent Devin Cooley to San Jose in exchange for this pick.[39]
    San Jose previously acquired his pick as the result of a trade on June 29, 2023, that sent Pittsburgh's seventh-round pick in 2023 to Washington in exchange for this pick.[40]

Unresolved conditional draft picks

The following draft picks have been dealt with a condition attached that could not be resolved yet. They are listed below with round, teams, condition itself and further notes, e.g. the players or picks involved in the respective trade.

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