Prospects · Los Angeles Kings · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Los Angeles Kings prospects

Every player in the Los Angeles Kings' 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.

24thLos Angeles Kings: pipeline rank among 32 organizations2 in the league top 100 · 37 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Elton HermanssonR · HockeyAllsvenskan182026 · #1917 GP · 6-5-11▼1
2Liam LefebvreC · QMJHL192026 · #4615 GP · 7-10-17▲6
3Blake ZielinskiC · NCAA182026 · #808 GP · 2-1-3▼1
4Vojtech CiharL · WHL192025 · #591 GP · 0-1-1▼2
5Kristian EppersonL · NCAA202025 · #8810 GP · 5-7-12▲86
6Thomas VandenbergC · NCAA182026 · #1037 GP · 0-1-1▲6
7Jimmy LombardiC · OHL192025 · #12516 GP · 7-15-22▼29
8Koehn ZiemmerR · AHL212023 · #7814 GP · 5-3-8▼40
9Kenny ConnorsC · NHL232022 · #1032 GP · 0-1-1▲116
10Ryan ConmyR · NCAA212023 · #1829 GP · 2-3-5▼6
11Jared WrightR · NHL232022 · #1694 GP · 0-1-1▼11
12Jan ChovanC · OHL192025 · #18416 GP · 5-11-16▼7
13Kaleb LawrenceC · AHL232022 · #21511 GP · 3-0-3▲34
14Tobias KrestanR · U20 Nationell182026 · #20921 GP · 8-10-18▼3
15Alex KostovR · NCAA202026 · #1776 GP · 0-3-3▼1
16James ReederR · NCAA202024 · #19810 GP · 2-2-4▼79
17Martin ChromiakR · NHL242020 · #1282 GP · 0-0-0▲154
18Brendan McMorrowC · NCAA202025 · #1967 GP · 0-2-2▼1
19Grant SlukynskyC · AHL24Undrafted12 GP · 0-2-2▼55
20Francesco PinelliC · AHL232021 · #4213 GP · 2-0-2▼23
21Aatu JamsenR · AHL242020 · #19014 GP · 5-1-6▼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