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Prospects · Vegas Golden Knights · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Vegas Golden Knights prospects

Every player in the Vegas Golden Knights' 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.

23rdVegas Golden Knights: pipeline rank among 32 organizations1 in the league top 100 · 29 prospects in the system

Prospects and the Vegas Golden Knights'NHL 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
1Trevor ConnellyL · NHL202024 · #1919 GP · 7-5-12–
2Braeden BowmanR · NHL · NHL23Undrafted19 GP · 4-3-7Here
3Carl LindbomG · NHL232021 · #2225 GP · .957 AHL▲3
4Pavel MoysevichG · ECHL212024 · #833 GP · .903▲22
5Juho PiiparinenD · OHL182026 · #2914 GP · 2-5-7▼11
6Mateo NobertC · QMJHL192025 · #8515 GP · 7-10-17▼10
7Jakob Ihs WozniakC · HockeyAllsvenskan192025 · #5517 GP · 5-4-9▲56
8Alexander WeiermairC · AHL212025 · #18610 GP · 1-1-2▼45
9Kai UchaczC · AHL23Undrafted2 GP · 0-0-0▼9
10Benjamin WilmottC · NCAA202026 · #928 GP · 2-3-5▲6
11Matthew MinchakG · OHL192026 · #1917 GP · .859▲8
12Jonah SivertsonR · WHL182026 · #11316 GP · 4-4-8▼6
13Noel PakarinenL · WHL182026 · #20714 GP · 6-5-11▲2
14Cameron WhiteheadG · ECHL232022 · #1285 GP · .948 AHL▲2
15Tuomas UronenR · AHL212023 · #19210 GP · 0-0-0▼121
16Lucas Van VlietC · NCAA202024 · #1978 GP · 8-3-11▲3
17Matyas SapovalivC · AHL222022 · #4812 GP · 4-5-9▲64
18Gustav SjoqvistD · HockeyAllsvenskan202025 · #18734 GP · 3-0-3▲3
19Ben HemmerlingR · AHL222022 · #1779 GP · 0-3-3▲4
20Mathieu CatafordC · AHL212023 · #7712 GP · 0-1-1▼56
21Will MclaughlinD · WHL182026 · #15915 GP · 1-9-10▲4
22Sean BurickD · WHL182026 · #9515 GP · 0-2-2▼1
23Arttu KarkiD · Liiga212023 · #9613 GP · 0-1-1▼9
24Jakub DemekC · AHL232021 · #12811 GP · 1-0-1▼251
25Joe FlemingR · AHL23Undrafted12 GP · 3-1-4▲24
26Jakub BrabenecC · Czechia232021 · #10211 GP · 1-1-2▼12
27Jordan GustafsonC · ECHL222022 · #794 GP · 0-1-1 AHL▼7

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