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
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Adam BenakC · OHL192025 · #1029 GP · 5-10-15 NCAA–
2Charlie StramelC · AHL212023 · #2115 GP · 2-3-5▼36
3Filip RuzickaG · WHL182026 · #13713 GP · .902–
4Aron KiviharjuD · Liiga202024 · #12213 GP · 0-8-8▼11
5Adam AnderssonC · U20 Nationell182026 · #8315 GP · 10-11-21▼8
6Ryder RitchieR · NCAA202024 · #459 GP · 3-4-7▲8
7Chase WutzkeG · WHL202024 · #1423 GP · .893 ECHL▲10
8Justin KipkieD · NCAA212025 · #1418 GP · 0-5-5▲7
9David SpacekD · NHL232022 · #15311 GP · 0-1-1▼48
10Viking Gustafsson NybergD · AHL22Undrafted15 GP · 1-0-1▼13
11Lirim AmidovskiR · OHL192025 · #1218 GP · 1-0-1 NCAA▼8
12Kayden LemireR · WHL182026 · #11214 GP · 2-7-9▲3
13Hunter HaightC · AHL222022 · #4714 GP · 3-3-6▼38
14Carter KlippensteinC · WHL192025 · #1232 GP · 1-0-1 NCAA▼2
15Rieger LorenzL · AHL222022 · #567 GP · 3-2-5▲1
16Riley HeidtC · AHL212023 · #6415 GP · 2-4-6▼5
17Sebastian SoiniD · Liiga202024 · #1409 GP · 0-0-0▲2
18Carson LambosD · AHL232021 · #2613 GP · 1-3-4▲21
19Rasmus KumpulainenC · AHL212023 · #537 GP · 1-0-1▼1
20Stevie LeskovarD · ECHL222024 · #1747 GP · 0-0-0 AHL–
21Riley MercerG · ECHL22Undrafted7 GP · .902 AHL▼3
22Theodor HallquisthD · HockeyAllsvenskan192025 · #5215 GP · 1-2-3▼10
23Roman SchmidtD · AHL232021 · #9612 GP · 0-1-1▼6
24James ClarkL · NCAA212023 · #2138 GP · 1-2-3▼8
25Caedan BankierC · AHL232021 · #8615 GP · 2-3-5▲7
26Jack PeartD · AHL232021 · #5415 GP · 1-7-8▲19
27Matvey GuskovC · KHL252019 · #14922 GP · 4-10-14▼8
28Aaron PionkD · NCAA232023 · #14910 GP · 1-2-3▼3
29Ben DexheimerD · AHL24Undrafted15 GP · 1-2-3▼2
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