2025 NHL Draft thread

[herman]

Leafs pick:
Rd 2. from FLA
Rd 3. from SJS (originally COL)
Rd 5. from PIT
Rd 5.
Rd 6.
Rd 7.

Draft combine starts tomorrow and lasts the week.

Draft weekend is June 27, 28 in LA.

---

Realgud draft simulator

If you want to run some draft sims to get to know players in our projected pick ranges; you can go full sim, or you can pick a team to GM for and place/trade your picks.

 

[azzurri63]

Leafs pick:
Rd 2. from FLA
Rd 3. from SJS (originally COL)
Rd 5. from PIT
Rd 5.
Rd 6.
Rd 7.

Draft combine starts tomorrow and lasts the week.

Draft weekend is June 27, 28 in LA.

Brutal what we have been giving away year after year and basically for no gain. Leafs should trade away the 3 picks and save team money and not even show up. I used to look forward to the draft not anymore.

 

[herman]

My NHL Draft Manifesto

It's draft season, so I thought I'd put all my mean thoughts about the draft, draft picks and the value of prospects in one place.

www.pensionplanpuppets.com

I like Brian's articles particularly because of how he thinks about prospects in terms of skills that can show improvement and those less likely to. Over the years, he's developed ideas about defencemen and what they need to be able to do that match my own very closely, and it's funny that we never talked about it, he just wrote something, and I wrote something and they more or less said the same thing.

I think these ideas about defence are shared by Brad Treliving and Craig Berube to a very large degree, and not by Kyle Dubas or Sheldon Keefe. And this is the area where I think Treliving has succeeded the most in making the Leafs into a different team.

The other thing Treliving has done is traded draft picks in a way I strongly disapprove of. He's kept far too many.