NHL Insider reveals the New York Rangers plan for the 12th overall Draft pick in 2025
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GM Chris Drury needs to have a plan for the 2025 NHL Draft, which takes place in the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. If they decide to keep it instead of sending it to Pittsburgh, they'll need to draft the best player available at 12th overall.
The New York Rangers have a complicated task ahead of them. They need to restock the prospect pipeline, but in reality, they owe the Pittsburgh Penguins a 1st-round draft pick.
Should GM Chris Drury go the route of actually keeping it, they'll need to select the best player available at 12th overall, preferably a center.
The team's center core is deep, but it's not young and ready for the future, as only Juuso Parssinen is the youngest, at 24.
J.T. Miller, Mika Zibanejad, Vincent Trocheck and Sam Carrick, along with Juuso Parssinen and Jonny Brodzinski on the NHL roster.
However, all of the rest are 30+, and the prospect pool isn't so full of promising young talent other than Brennan Othmann, Gabriel Perreault, and Brett Berard.
Afterwards, it's a big drop off, and none of them play at the center position.
We could consider Noah Laba, the team's top center prospect, but ideally, more than one would be nice. Laba signed his ELC with the Rangers this offseason, and in 2023-2024 showed he's a capable offensive threat with Colorado College, scoring 37 points (20 goals, 17 assists).
Here are some interesting names for the draft:
Jack Nesbitt (Windsor), who's got size (6-foot-4, 185 pounds) and skill and plays a physical game; Brady Martin (Sault Ste. Marie), who had 72 points this season; and 6-foot-5 Roger McQueen (Brandon), who has plenty of skill, but played only 17 games this season because of a back injury.
Or, if GM Chris Drury wants to move up in the draft, he could package Zac Jones and a 12th overall pick to another team in the hopes they could move up enough to select someone like James Hagens, but that'd require some ingenuity.
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