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Prospects · New York Islanders · 2026-27 · updated November 9

New York Islanders prospects

Every player in the New York Islanders' 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.

17thNew York Islanders: pipeline rank among 32 organizations3 in the league top 100 · 31 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Victor EklundR · NHL192025 · #1616 GP · 5-3-8▲9
2Cole EisermanL · AHL202024 · #2010 GP · 2-4-6▼14
3Tomas PoletinL · WHL192025 · #10614 GP · 8-5-13▼4
4Daniil ProkhorovR · AHL192025 · #4214 GP · 1-0-1▼119
5Luca RomanoC · OHL192025 · #7417 GP · 6-11-17▼17
6Kamil BednarikC · NCAA202024 · #619 GP · 3-3-6–
7Danny NelsonC · NCAA212023 · #4910 GP · 5-5-10▼300
8Jacob KvasnickaR · NCAA192025 · #20210 GP · 2-2-4▼77
9Robert CowanR · NCAA202026 · #2059 GP · 4-4-8▼2
10Quinn FinleyL · AHL222022 · #7811 GP · 3-5-8▲34
11Artyom MatyukC · MHL182026 · #17317 GP · 3-7-10▼5
12Gleb VeremyevC · ECHL23Undrafted5 GP · 0-0-0 AHL▼4
13Alex JefferiesL · AHL242020 · #12115 GP · 0-3-3▼32
14Jesse NurmiL · OHL212023 · #1139 GP · 5-4-9 ECHL▼4
15Daylan KueflerL · AHL242022 · #1748 GP · 1-2-3▲2
16Joey LarsonR · AHL25Undrafted8 GP · 3-2-5▼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