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

Prospects and the New York Islanders'NHL players aged 23 and under, scored on the same scale. A regular's odds are high because he is already there; his score says how good the players like him became.

95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Matthew SchaeferD · NHL · NHL192025 · #116 GP · 5-11-16Here
2Victor EklundR · NHL192025 · #1616 GP · 5-3-8▲9
3Kashawn AitchesonD · AHL192025 · #1715 GP · 0-4-4▼15
4Calum RitchieC · NHL · NHL212023 · #278 GP · 1-1-2Here
5Dmitry GamzinG · KHL232024 · #11513 GP · .930▲5
6Malte GustafssonD · SHL182026 · #1313 GP · 0-4-4▼7
7Cole EisermanL · AHL202024 · #2010 GP · 2-4-6▼14
8Isaiah GeorgeD · AHL · NHL222022 · #988 GP · 0-0-0
9Xavier VeilleuxD · NCAA202024 · #1794 GP · 0-2-2▼3
10Tomas PoletinL · WHL192025 · #10614 GP · 8-5-13▼4
11Daniil ProkhorovR · AHL192025 · #4214 GP · 1-0-1▼119
12Vladimír DraveckýD · OHL182026 · #14116 GP · 5-16-21▼11
13Jesse PulkkinenD · ECHL212024 · #546 GP · 0-0-0▲10
14Burke HoodG · WHL192025 · #17012 GP · .938▲9
15Lincoln KuehneD · NCAA182026 · #10910 GP · 0-2-2▲5
16Luca RomanoC · OHL192025 · #7417 GP · 6-11-17▼17
17Kamil BednarikC · NCAA202024 · #619 GP · 3-3-6–
18Danny NelsonC · NCAA212023 · #4910 GP · 5-5-10▼300
19Jacob KvasnickaR · NCAA192025 · #20210 GP · 2-2-4▼77
20Sam LaurilaD · NCAA202025 · #1388 GP · 1-5-6–
21Robert CowanR · NCAA202026 · #2059 GP · 4-4-8▼2
22Quinn FinleyL · AHL222022 · #7811 GP · 3-5-8▲34
23Artyom MatyukC · MHL182026 · #17317 GP · 3-7-10▼5
24Joshua KotaiG · NCAA23Undrafted9 GP · .906 AHL▼7
25Zachary SchulzD · NCAA212023 · #1778 GP · 0-0-0▼7
26Gleb VeremyevC · ECHL23Undrafted5 GP · 0-0-0 AHL▼4
27Calle OdeliusD · AHL222022 · #6511 GP · 1-1-2▲13
28Jesse NurmiL · OHL212023 · #1139 GP · 5-4-9 ECHL▼4
29Dennis Good BoggD · HockeyEttan222023 · #2097 GP · 0-1-1▼1

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