Yahoo Sports 2025 NHL Draft: 35 Skaters, 6 Goalies Highlighted On Newest NHL Central Scouting List
NHL Central Scouting has released its second watchlist for the 2025 NHL Draft.
Related: NHL Central Scouting Names 38 QMJHL Players To Preliminary Watch List
The list features two QMJHLers within the Top 15, Moncton Wildcats centerman Caleb Desnoyers at No. 7 and Blainville-Boisbriand Armada right winger Justin Carbonneau at No. 13.
These two names should be very familiar to both QMJHL fans and draft enthusiasts alike as both represented the CHL at the 2024 CHL/USA Prospects Challenge.
Related: Desnoyers, Carbonneau Represented The QMJHL Well At CHL/USA Prospects Game
Desnoyers has 56 points (23+33) over 34 games with the Wildcats this season, meanwhile Carbonneau has 53 points (27+26) over 38 games with the Armada.
Not too far behind is Rouyn-Noranda Huskies prospect RW Bill Zonnon at No. 29. His ranking means the scouting front for the NHL thinks he's a borderline first round talent.
Zonnon has 58 points (23+35) over 39 games with the Huskies this season.
For goaltenders, the QMJHL had three representatives among the Top 5 in Baie-Comeau Drakkar's Lucas Beckman at No. 3 and Samuel Meloche at No. 4.
Beckman has a .919 over 30 games with the Drakkar this season, and Meloche has an .897 over 33 games with the Huskies.
As for the rest of the Top 100:
No. 47: LW Zachary Morin (Saint John, 27 in 32)
No. 53: C Mateo Nobert (Blainville-Boisbriand, 46 in 38)
No. 56: C Nathan Quinn (Quebec, 39 in 38)
No. 61: LW Emile Guite (Chicoutimi, 16 in 38)
No. 66: D Carlos Handel (Halifax, 15 in 31)
No. 78: D Will Reynolds (Acadie-Bathurst, 7 in 37)
No. 82: RW Andreas Straka (Quebec, 20 in 30)
No. 90: D Alex Huang (Chicoutimi, 19 in 39)
No. 93: D Alexis Mathieu (Baie-Comeau, 5 in 36)
No. 94: D Owen Conrad (Charlottetown, 11 in 39)
No. 96: C Liam Kilfoil (Halifax, 28 in 39)
Other mentions include:
D Drew Allison (Baie-Comeau), C Julius Sumpf (Moncton), D Eduard Bondar (Val-d'Or), D Maddox Labre (Victoriaville), D Alonso Gosselin (Chicoutimi), D Noah Laberge (Acadie-Bathurst), D Alexandre Carbonneau (Blainville-Boisbriand), C Olivier Groulx (Saint John), LW Rafael Cloutier (Blainville-Boisbriand), C Jabez Seymour (Charlottetown), LW Emmanuel Vermette (Chicoutimi), D Carter Hynes (Quebec), D Will Murphy (Cape Breton), C Elliot Dube (Saint John), LW Philippe Veilleux (Val-d'Or), RW Xavier Lebel (Quebec), RW Olivier Lampron (Sherbrooke), C Vincent Desjardins (Blainville-Boisbriand), LW Shawn Carrier (Halifax), C Nathan Lecompte (Chicoutimi), C Mael Lavigne (Rimouski), G Louis-Antoine Denault (Quebec), G Gabriel D'Aigle (Victoriaville), G Linards Feldbergs (Sherbrooke), G Mathis Langevin (Rimouski).
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