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

Prospects and the Minnesota Wild'sNHL players aged 23 and under, scored on the same scale. A regular's odds are high because he is already there; his score says how good the players like him became.

95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Jesper WallstedtG · NHL · NHL232021 · #2016 GP · .922Here
2Danila YurovR · NHL · NHL222022 · #2419 GP · 6-1-7Here
3Adam BenakC · OHL192025 · #1029 GP · 5-10-15 NCAA–
4Charlie StramelC · AHL212023 · #2115 GP · 2-3-5▼36
5Filip RuzickaG · WHL182026 · #13713 GP · .902–
6Aron KiviharjuD · Liiga202024 · #12213 GP · 0-8-8▼11
7Adam AnderssonC · U20 Nationell182026 · #8315 GP · 10-11-21▼8
8Ryder RitchieR · NCAA202024 · #459 GP · 3-4-7▲8
9Chase WutzkeG · WHL202024 · #1423 GP · .893 ECHL▲10
10Justin KipkieD · NCAA212025 · #1418 GP · 0-5-5▲7
11David SpacekD · NHL232022 · #15311 GP · 0-1-1▼48
12Viking Gustafsson NybergD · AHL22Undrafted15 GP · 1-0-1▼13
13Lirim AmidovskiR · OHL192025 · #1218 GP · 1-0-1 NCAA▼8
14Kayden LemireR · WHL182026 · #11214 GP · 2-7-9▲3
15Hunter HaightC · AHL222022 · #4714 GP · 3-3-6▼38
16Carter KlippensteinC · WHL192025 · #1232 GP · 1-0-1 NCAA▼2
17Rieger LorenzL · AHL222022 · #567 GP · 3-2-5▲1
18Riley HeidtC · AHL212023 · #6415 GP · 2-4-6▼5
19Sebastian SoiniD · Liiga202024 · #1409 GP · 0-0-0▲2
20Carson LambosD · AHL232021 · #2613 GP · 1-3-4▲21
21Rasmus KumpulainenC · AHL212023 · #537 GP · 1-0-1▼1
22Stevie LeskovarD · ECHL222024 · #1747 GP · 0-0-0 AHL–
23Riley MercerG · ECHL22Undrafted7 GP · .902 AHL▼3
24Theodor HallquisthD · HockeyAllsvenskan192025 · #5215 GP · 1-2-3▼10
25Roman SchmidtD · AHL232021 · #9612 GP · 0-1-1▼6
26James ClarkL · NCAA212023 · #2138 GP · 1-2-3▼8
27Caedan BankierC · AHL232021 · #8615 GP · 2-3-5▲7
28Jack PeartD · AHL232021 · #5415 GP · 1-7-8▲19
29Aaron PionkD · NCAA232023 · #14910 GP · 1-2-3▼3
30Nate 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