Prospects · Florida Panthers · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Florida Panthers prospects

Every player in the Florida Panthers' system who still counts as a rookie, ranked by what he is likely to become: the odds he turns into an NHL regular, and how good the players most like him turned out to be. Draft position starts the estimate; what he does after the draft takes it over.

29thFlorida Panthers: pipeline rank among 32 organizations1 in the league top 100 · 35 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Sandis VilmanisL · NHL222022 · #15716 GP · 3-4-7▲73
2Simas IgnataviciusR · NL182026 · #4019 GP · 2-0-2▲8
3Ryder CaliC · OHL182026 · #488 GP · 5-0-5 NCAA▼4
4Jack DevineR · AHL222022 · #22113 GP · 9-3-12▲112
5Shea BuschL · NCAA192025 · #12810 GP · 2-0-2▲74
6Shamar MosesR · OHL192025 · #12919 GP · 8-7-15▲21
7Cole ZurawskiR · OHL182026 · #18115 GP · 5-6-11▼1
8Gracyn SawchynC · AHL212023 · #6314 GP · 4-6-10▲72
9Stepan GorbunovC · KHL202024 · #16918 GP · 1-0-1▲3
10Linus ErikssonC · SHL202024 · #5814 GP · 0-6-6▼23
11Simon ZetherC · SHL202024 · #12915 GP · 1-2-3▲22
12Mads Kongsbak KlyvoL · SHL192025 · #11214 GP · 0-1-1▼18
13Vilho VanhataloR · Liiga182026 · #16811 GP · 1-1-2▼2
14Arvid DrottR · WHL192025 · #19214 GP · 3-4-7▼27
15Kai SchwindtL · AHL22Undrafted7 GP · 0-0-0▼10
16Hunter St. MartinL · AHL212024 · #19314 GP · 1-0-1▼35
17Samu SalminenC · NCAA232021 · #682 GP · 0-0-0 AHL▲3
18Stepan ZvyaginL · Belarus222023 · #1989 GP · 0-4-4 VHL▼1

NHL odds are the chance he becomes a full-time NHL player — 200 games by age 26, or 100 by 27 for a goalie. Impact odds are the chance he becomes better than the typical regular at his position. WAR if he sticks is the middle outcome among his comparables who made it. The score is a percentile of the expected outcome across every prospect in the league, so forwards, defensemen and goalies sit on one scale. The rankings update every night. Week is the change in his league rank since October 29. Goalie projections are the least certain on the page: goaltending develops late and the history behind it is thin. How the rankings work