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FN’s 2025 Flames summer prospect rankings – the individual lists
Source: https://flamesnation.ca/news/fns-2025-flames-summer-prospect-rankings-the-individual-lists
Every summer since 2015, we here at FlamesNation have compiled our annual prospects rankings.
And man, this year was probably the most challenging voting we’ve ever conducted. Gone are the days where the most recent draft choices automatically leap to the top of a shallow prospect pool. With the depth that we’ve seen the Calgary Flames add in the draft (and via trades and free agent signings) in recent years, there are a lot of tough decisions and debates to be had when deciding who the organization’s top youngsters are.
Let’s dig into how we went through this year’s rankings.
The top 20
Our nine voters were tasked with sifting through Calgary’s 39 eligible prospects and crafting a list of who they deemed the top 20. (What constituted a “top prospect” was left deliberately vague and up to each voter’s interpretation, but each player had to be eligible to win the Calder Trophy in 2025-26 to be eligible for selection for this list.)
With each ballot submitted, FlamesNation managing editor Ryan Pike assigned 20 points to every prospect ranked No. 1 on each individual ballot and a single point for each No. 20-ranked prospect (and divided up as such for the in-between spots).
12 prospects received no votes and earned zero points towards their final ranking: Parker Bell, Daniil Chechelev, Nick Cicek, Lucas Ciona, Artem Grushnikov, Axel Hurtig, Jakob Leander, Jaden Lipinski, Yan Matveiko, Owen Say and Yegor Yegorov. (Joni Jurmo mutually terminated his contract midway through voting, but he didn’t receive any votes either.)
Aidan Lane received one point, Hunter Laing received two points, Eric Jamieson received three points, Jeremie Poirier received seven points, Mace’o Phillips received eight points, Trevor Hoskin received nine points and Carter King received 14 points.
Here’s how the top 20 came together:
RANK PROSPECT POINTS CHANGE FROM 2024 1 Zayne Parekh 180 None 2 Cole Reschny 170 New 3 Hunter Brzustewicz 150 None 4 Matvei Gridin 147 Up from 6 5 Cullen Potter 137 New 6 Henry Mews 131 Up from 9 7 Jacob Battaglia 129 Up from 11 8 Andrew Basha 126 Down from 5 9 Aydar Suniev 97 Up from 12 10 Etienne Morin 95 None 11 Sam Honzek 87 Down from 4 12 Theo Stockselius 79 New 13 Luke Misa 76 None 14 Arsenii Sergeev 54 Up from NR 15 Rory Kerins 52 Up from NR 16 William Strömgren 43 Down from 8 17 Ilya Solovyov 29 Down from 14 18 Kirill Zarubin 27 Up from 19 19 Yan Kuznetsov 19 Up from 20 20 Ethan Wyttenbach 18 New
Four members of the Flames’ 2025 draft class feature on this year’s rankings: first-rounder Reschny (2nd), first-rounder Potter (5th), second-rounder Stockselius (12th) and fifth-rounder Wyttenbach (20th).
From the 2024 ranking, we saw the graduation of Dustin Wolf (No. 2) and Adam Klapka (No. 15), as they both exceeded the games played cap to be considered rookies for 2025-26. (Wolf finished second in Calder Trophy voting and made the All-Rookie Team.) Cole Schwindt (No. 18) was claimed off waivers by Vegas in the fall. Jeremie Poirier (No. 7), Jaden Lipinski (No. 16) and Artem Grushnikov (No. 17) all remain in the Flames system, but failed to gain enough votes to reach this year’s top 20.
The 2025 top 20 features two goaltenders, six defencemen and 12 forwards. In terms of nationalities, the list contains eight Canadians, five Russians, three Americans, two Swedes, one Slovak and one Belarusian.
Individual lists
10 of our contributors submitted individual lists for the 2024 rankings. Here’s the breakdown:
RANK PIKE GOULD RYLEY ROBERT FLASH PAIGE ADRIAN LIAM PINDER 1 PAREKH PAREKH PAREKH PAREKH PAREKH PAREKH PAREKH PAREKH PAREKH 2 RESCHNY BRZUSTEWICZ RESCHNY RESCHNY RESCHNY RESCHNY RESCHNY RESCHNY RESCHNY 3 BRZUSTEWICZ RESCHNY GRIDIN POTTER MEWS BRZUSTEWICZ BRZUSTEWICZ MEWS POTTER 4 GRIDIN BATTAGLIA BRZUSTEWICZ BRZUSTEWICZ GRIDIN BATTAGLIA BATTAGLIA BATTAGLIA GRIDIN 5 BASHA MORIN BATTAGLIA GRIDIN BASHA POTTER GRIDIN GRIDIN BASHA 6 POTTER GRIDIN POTTER BASHA BRZUSTEWICZ GRIDIN MEWS POTTER BRZUSTEWICZ 7 BATTAGLIA MEWS MEWS MEWS STOCKSELIUS MEWS POTTER STOCKSELIUS MEWS 8 MORIN POTTER BASHA SUNIEV POTTER BASHA BASHA BRZUSTEWICZ SUNIEV 9 SUNIEV BASHA SERGEEV BATTAGLIA MISA HONZEK SUNIEV BASHA BATTAGLIA 10 HONZEK SUNIEV STOCKSELIUS MORIN HONZEK MORIN MORIN SUNIEV STOCKSELIUS 11 MEWS HONZEK MORIN STOCKSELIUS SERGEEV MISA HONZEK HONZEK ZARUBIN 12 MISA STOCKSELIUS MISA HONZEK MORIN SUNIEV MISA KERINS HONZEK 13 SOLOVYOV STRÖMGREN SUNIEV WYTTENBACH SUNIEV KERINS STOCKSELIUS MISA MISA 14 KERINS SERGEEV STROMGREN SERGEEV BATTAGLIA SOLOVYOV STROMGREN MORIN MORIN 15 STRÖMGREN ZARUBIN KERINS MISA POIRIER STROMGREN KERINS ZARUBIN SOLOVYOV 16 KUZNETSOV MISA HONZEK KERINS WYTTENBACH KING SERGEEV WYTTENBACH SERGEEV 17 KING KERINS HOSKIN KUZNETSOV KERINS SERGEEV KUZNETSOV PHILLIPS STROMGREN 18 PHILLIPS KUZNETSOV ZARUBIN SOLOVYOV SOLOVYOV KUZNETSOV KING STROMGREN KERINS 19 SERGEEV HOSKIN LAING STROMGREN ZARUBIN JAMIESON SOLOVYOV SERGEEV HOSKIN 20 STOCKSELIUS KING KING HOSKIN JAMIESON STOCKSELIUS PHILLIPS LANE POIRIER
For the second consecutive year, Parekh was the unanimous choice for top prospect. Behind him, there was consensus around silver-medallist Cole Reschny, while Hunter Brzustewicz just beat out Matvei Gridin for third spot. In terms of trends, there was a lot of consensus over the top eight… and then a ton of variation after that.
In terms of specific players that we had differing opinions on, the most prominent are Sam Honzek and Etienne Morin. Honzek was high as ninth and as low as 16th, while Morin varied between fifth and 14th.
And seemingly every year we do this exercise, there’s a player that misses the cut for the top 20 that ends up playing NHL games. The top candidate for that distinction could end up being Lucas Ciona, who appeared on zero ballots but really stood out as a physical, agitating presence in the Wranglers bottom six last season.
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Source: https://flamesnation.ca/news/fns-2025-flames-summer-prospect-rankings-the-individual-lists