2025 NHL Expansion Draft

2025 NHL expansion draft
General information
Date(s)	June 21, 2025
Location	T-Mobile Arena Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
Network(s)	ABC/Nick Jr. (United States)
Overview
League	National Hockey League
Expansion team	Wyoming Extreme
Expansion season	2025–26

The 2025 NHL Expansion Draft was an expansion draft that was conducted by the National Hockey League (NHL) on July 21, 2021, at Toyota Centre in Houston. The draft took place to fill the roster of the league's expansion team for the 2025–26 season, the Wyoming Extreme. The Extreme selected 37 players from 30 of the league's 31 teams, and 25 ultimately ended up playing for the team.

Protected Lists

The protected players' list was published on June 18, 2025.

Eastern Conference

Italics: Players protected for contractual reasons.

Atlantic Division

Position	Boston	Buffalo	Detroit	Florida	Montreal	Ottawa	Tampa Bay	Toronto
Forwards	David Backes	Tyler Ennis	Justin Abdelkader	Aleksander Barkov	Paul Byron	Derick Brassard	Ryan Callahan	Tyler Bozak
	Patrice Bergeron	Marcus Foligno	Andreas Athanasiou	Nick Bjugstad	Phillip Danault	Ryan Dzingel	Tyler Johnson	Connor Brown
	David Krejci	Zemgus Girgensons	Anthony Mantha	Jonathan Huberdeau	Jonathan Drouin	Mike Hoffman	Alex Killorn	Nazem Kadri
	Brad Marchand	Evander Kane	Frans Nielsen	Vincent Trocheck	Alex Galchenyuk	Jean-Gabriel Pageau	Nikita Kucherov	Leo Komarov
	Riley Nash	Johan Larsson	Gustav Nyquist		Brendan Gallagher	Zack Smith	Vladislav Namestnikov	Josh Leivo
	David Pastrnak	Kyle Okposo	Tomas Tatar		Max Pacioretty	Mark Stone	Ondrej Palat	Matt Martin
	Ryan Spooner	Ryan O'Reilly	Henrik Zetterberg		Andrew Shaw	Kyle Turris	Steven Stamkos	James van Riemsdyk
Defencemen	Zdeno Chara	Nathan Beaulieu	Danny DeKeyser	Aaron Ekblad	Jordie Benn	Cody Ceci	Braydon Coburn	Connor Carrick
	Torey Krug	Jake McCabe	Mike Green	Alex Petrovic	Jeff Petry	Erik Karlsson	Victor Hedman	Jake Gardiner
	Kevan Miller	Rasmus Ristolainen	Nick Jensen	Mark Pysyk	Shea Weber	Dion Phaneuf	Anton Stralman	Morgan Rielly
				Keith Yandle
Goaltender	Tuukka Rask	Robin Lehner	Jimmy Howard	James Reimer	Carey Price	Craig Anderson	Andrei Vasilevskiy	Frederik Andersen

Metropolitan Division

Position	Carolina	Columbus	New Jersey	NY Islanders	NY Rangers	Philadelphia	Pittsburgh	Washington
Forwards	Phillip Di Giuseppe	Cam Atkinson	Taylor Hall	Andrew Ladd	Kevin Hayes	Sean Couturier	Sidney Crosby	Nicklas Backstrom
	Elias Lindholm	Brandon Dubinsky	Adam Henrique	Anders Lee	Chris Kreider	Valtteri Filppula	Patric Hornqvist	Andre Burakovsky
	Brock McGinn	Nick Foligno	Kyle Palmieri	John Tavares	J. T. Miller	Claude Giroux	Phil Kessel	Lars Eller
	Victor Rask	Scott Hartnell	Travis Zajac		Rick Nash	Scott Laughton	Evgeni Malkin	Marcus Johansson
	Jeff Skinner	Boone Jenner			Derek Stepan	Brayden Schenn		Evgeny Kuznetsov
	Jordan Staal	Brandon Saad			Mika Zibanejad	Wayne Simmonds		Alexander Ovechkin
	Teuvo Teravainen	Alexander Wennberg			Mats Zuccarello	Jakub Voracek		Tom Wilson
Defencemen	Trevor Carrick	Seth Jones	Andy Greene	Johnny Boychuk	Nick Holden	Shayne Gostisbehere	Brian Dumoulin	John Carlson
	Justin Faulk	Ryan Murray	John Moore	Travis Hamonic	Ryan McDonagh	Radko Gudas	Kris Letang	Matt Niskanen
	Ryan Murphy	David Savard	Mirco Muller	Nick Leddy	Marc Staal	Brandon Manning	Olli Maatta	Dmitry Orlov
			Damon Severson	Adam Pelech			Justin Schultz
				Ryan Pulock
Goaltender	Scott Darling	Sergei Bobrovsky	Cory Schneider	Thomas Greiss	Henrik Lundqvist	Anthony Stolarz	Matt Murray	Braden Holtby

Western Conference

Central Division

Position	Chicago	Colorado	Dallas	Houston	Minnesota	Nashville	St. Louis	Winnipeg
Forwards	Artem Anisimov	Sven Andrighetto	Jamie Benn	Richard Cross	Charlie Coyle	Viktor Arvidsson	Patrik Berglund	Joel Armia
	Ryan Hartman	Blake Comeau	Radek Faksa	Paul Fazaka	Mikael Granlund	Filip Forsberg	Ryan Reaves	Andrew Copp
	Marian Hossa	Matt Duchene	Valeri Nichushkin		Mikko Koivu	Calle Jarnkrok	Jaden Schwartz	Bryan Little
	Tomas Jurco	Rocco Grimaldi	Brett Ritchie		Nino Niederreiter	Ryan Johansen	Vladimir Sobotka	Adam Lowry
	Patrick Kane	Gabriel Landeskog	Antoine Roussel		Zach Parise		Paul Stastny	Mathieu Perreault
	Richard Panik	Nathan MacKinnon	Tyler Seguin		Jason Pominville		Alexander Steen	Mark Scheifele
	Jonathan Toews	Matt Nieto	Jason Spezza		Jason Zucker		Vladimir Tarasenko	Blake Wheeler
Defencemen	Niklas Hjalmarsson	Tyson Barrie	Stephen Johns		Jonas Brodin	Mattias Ekholm	Jay Bouwmeester	Dustin Byfuglien
	Duncan Keith	Erik Johnson	John Klingberg		Jared Spurgeon	Ryan Ellis	Joel Edmundson	Tyler Myers
	Brent Seabrook	Nikita Zadorov	Esa Lindell		Ryan Suter	Roman Josi	Alex Pietrangelo	Jacob Trouba
						P. K. Subban
Goaltender	Corey Crawford	Semyon Varlamov	Ben Bishop		Devan Dubnyk	Pekka Rinne	Jake Allen	Connor Hellebuyck

Pacific Division

Position	Anaheim	Arizona	Calgary	Edmonton	Los Angeles	San Jose	Vancouver	Vegas
Forwards	Andrew Cogliano	Nick Cousins	Mikael Backlund	Leon Draisaitl	Jeff Carter	Ryan Carpenter	Sven Bartschi	Drafting
	Ryan Getzlaf	Anthony Duclair	Sam Bennett	Jordan Eberle	Anze Kopitar	Logan Couture	Loui Eriksson
	Ryan Kesler	Jordan Martinook	Micheal Ferland	Zack Kassian	Tanner Pearson	Jannik Hansen	Markus Granlund
	Corey Perry	Tobias Rieder	Michael Frolík	Mark Letestu	Tyler Toffoli	Tomas Hertl	Bo Horvat
	Rickard Rakell		Johnny Gaudreau	Milan Lucic		Melker Karlsson	Daniel Sedin
	Jakob Silfverberg		Curtis Lazar	Patrick Maroon		Joe Pavelski	Henrik Sedin
	Antoine Vermette		Sean Monahan	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins		Chris Tierney	Brandon Sutter
Defencemen	Kevin Bieksa	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	T. J. Brodie	Oscar Klefbom	Drew Doughty	Justin Braun	Alexander Edler
	Cam Fowler	Alex Goligoski	Mark Giordano	Adam Larsson	Derek Forbort	Brent Burns	Erik Gudbranson
	Hampus Lindholm	Connor Murphy	Dougie Hamilton	Andrej Sekera	Alec Martinez	Marc-Edouard Vlasic	Christopher Tanev
		Luke Schenn			Jake Muzzin
Goaltender	John Gibson	Chad Johnson	Mike Smith	Cam Talbot	Jonathan Quick	Martin Jones	Jacob Markstrom

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