Prospects · Minnesota Wild · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Minnesota Wild prospects

Every player in the Minnesota Wild's 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.

32ndMinnesota Wild: pipeline rank among 32 organizations1 in the league top 100 · 30 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Aron KiviharjuD · Liiga202024 · #12213 GP · 0-8-8▼11
2Justin KipkieD · NCAA212025 · #1418 GP · 0-5-5▲7
3David SpacekD · NHL232022 · #15311 GP · 0-1-1▼48
4Viking Gustafsson NybergD · AHL22Undrafted15 GP · 1-0-1▼13
5Sebastian SoiniD · Liiga202024 · #1409 GP · 0-0-0▲2
6Carson LambosD · AHL232021 · #2613 GP · 1-3-4▲21
7Stevie LeskovarD · ECHL222024 · #1747 GP · 0-0-0 AHL–
8Theodor HallquisthD · HockeyAllsvenskan192025 · #5215 GP · 1-2-3▼10
9Roman SchmidtD · AHL232021 · #9612 GP · 0-1-1▼6
10Jack PeartD · AHL232021 · #5415 GP · 1-7-8▲19
11Aaron PionkD · NCAA232023 · #14910 GP · 1-2-3▼3
12Ben DexheimerD · AHL24Undrafted15 GP · 1-2-3▼2
13Nate BenoitD · NCAA232021 · #18210 GP · 0-2-2–

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