Flyers close out their NHL draft 2025 class with a sixth-round center originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The Flyers wrapped up their 2025 NHL draft class Saturday afternoon with Nathan Quinn in the sixth round.

The 5-foot-11, 173-pound center went to the Flyers at 164th overall. He was the third center taken by the Flyers, joining first-rounder Jack Nesbitt and second-rounder Matthew Gard.

With the QMJHL’s Quebec Remparts, the 17-year-old put up 17 goals and 29 assists over 54 regular-season games in 2024-25.

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The Ottawa Senators continue to load up on right-shot defensemen. On Saturday afternoon, on day two of the 2025 NHL Draft, they acquired 24-year-old defenseman Jordan Spence from the Los Angeles Kings.

In return, they give up the 67th overall pick and a sixth-round selection in 2026 (originally Colorado's).

Spence appeared in 79 regular season games with Los Angeles in 2024-25, putting up four goals and 28 points, along with a plus-23 rating. In 180 career NHL games, Spence has collected eight goals and 61 points. He is signed for the 2025-26 NHL season with a contract that carries an AAV of $1.5 million.

Born in Manly, Australia (a Manly Man), Spence was a fourth-round selection (95th overall) by Los Angeles in the 2019 NHL Draft. He appeared in 160 games in the QMJHL with Moncton and Val-d’Or.

11 days ago, The Hockey News/Ottawa's Graeme Nichols wrote about Spence as a possibility for the Senators after Sporrtsnet's Elliotte Friedman mentioned the Kings may be willing to move Spence.

Summer Trade Targets: Would Kings Defenceman Jordan Spence Be A Fit With The Ottawa Senators?When outlining the prospective right defencemen the Ottawa Senators could potentially target in a trade this summer, one of the names that I've mentioned offhand is Jordan Spence of the Los Angeles Kings.

From Nichols:

Spence's underlying metrics were excellent. Granted, he played sheltered minutes on one of the better defensive teams in the league, so that is an obvious consideration to factor in.

When Spence was on the ice at five-on-five per NaturalStatTrick, the Kings generated 56.80 percent of the shots (CF%), 56.98 percent of the shots on goal (SF%), 65.43 percent of the total goals (GF%), and 56.88 percent of the expected goals (xGF%).

The problem with Spence is that he is listed at 5'11" and 180 lbs.

He defends almost exclusively through his skating, gap control and stick placement, but his strong underlying possession metrics are driven principally by his excellent puck-moving ability. According to the NHL.com's Zach Dooley, "no Kings blueliner had a higher success rate of exiting the defensive zone this season via a carry-out or a pass than Spence did, at just shy of 90 percent."

Highly efficient exits mean fewer minutes spent defending within the defensive zone. In essence, Spence's success is not that dissimilar from what makes Nick Jensen so effective.

Like Ken Holland, however, it certainly feels like the Senators have emphasized adding a measure of size and physicality to their lineup. It may also be a coincidence, but it was also an observation of their selections at the 2024 NHL Draft.

With puck-movers like Thomas Chabot and Jake Sanderson already in the lineup on Spence's opposite side, the need for an undersized puck-mover just is not there. Circumstances may change if Jensen's recovery from offseason hip surgery goes well and he is ready for training camp.

The organization could decide that a puck-mover to partner with Tyler Kleven as an alternative to Nik Matinpalo is ideal.

And suddenly, we may have some interesting battles shaping up at training camp this fall. Not only that, but the local sports radio station may have a new spokesperson for their omnipresent Spence Diamonds ads.

Steve Warne & Graeme Nichols
The Hockey News/Ottawa

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The Vancouver Canucks have selected center Kieren Dervin with their 65th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft. Having already picked centre Braeden Cootes of the Seattle Thunderbirds and goaltender Alexei Medvedev of the London Knights, Vancouver is officially halfway through their draft selections so far today. 

Dervin split the 2024–25 season with the Kingston Frontenacs of the OHL and St. Andrew’s College. In his 10 games with Kingston, he scored a goal and two assists. He played 50 games with St. Andrew’s, tallying 33 goals and 46 assists, according to EliteProspects. In the past two seasons with St. Andrew’s, he scored 48 goals and 78 assists in 99 games. 

A 6’1 left-shot center, Dervin hasn’t had much experience in the OHL, but showed flashes of being a solid two-way player while creating offensively. He has committed to Penn State University of the NCAA. 

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The Vegas Golden Knights' first move on the second day of the NHL Draft was trading picks 58 and 122 to Nashville for the 55th overall pick.

And with the 55th overall pick on Saturday, the Knights then selected 6-foot-2, 185-pound Jakob Ihs Wozniak, who played for Sweden's Lulea HF. Ihs-Wozniak had 57 points in 40 games last season with Lulea HF.

We are proud to select forward Jakob Ihs-Wozniak with the 55th pick! 😃 #VegasBornpic.twitter.com/e94OsOLINs

— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) June 28, 2025

Ihs-Wozniak, 18, is a right-handed Australian left winger with a big shot who was expected to put up some eye-popping numbers last season after breaking the scoring record for 17-year-olds in the Swedish junior league the previous year.

Unfortunately, his production stagnated. He also had some underwhelming showings at the Hlinka Gretzky and Five Nations tournaments, resulting in him tumbling out of the The Hockey News' top 10 rankings.

Scouts want to see Ihs-Wozniak ramp up both his physical play and his urgency.

"When he decides to compete and work, he is very hard to stop," said one scout. "I find him wildly inconsistent, particularly with his compete. When he’s using his body, he’s really good. I just haven’t seen him do it that often."

Ihs-Wozniak projects as a second-liner if he figures things out. Multiple scouts said that when he goes to the dirty areas, he can accomplish a lot.

"We’re still trying to figure him out," said another scout. "He just blends in sometimes. He has some consistency issues that need to be addressed. He has size and does some good things, but you often can’t find him."

The team still have four other picks, at No. 91 (third round), No. 154 (fifth round), No. 186 (sixth round) and No. 187 (sixth round).

After the events of the first round of the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, the Pittsburgh Penguins were left without the second-round pick given to them by the Washington Capitals for forward Anthony Beauvillier at the trade deadline.

They managed to get it back - and then some - on Day Two.

On Saturday, the Penguins acquired right defenseman Connor Clifton and the 39th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft from the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for pending-RFA defenseman Conor Timmins and defensive prospect Isaac Belliveau.

Pittsburgh subsequently used the 39th overall pick to select defenseman Peyton Kettles from the Swift Current Broncos of the WHL. 

The 6-foot-5, 190-pound right defenseman is heralded as a true shutdown defenseman, as Elite Prospects raved about his ability to stymie the opposition's best players:

"When Swift Current needed to close out a game, Kettles didn't leave the ice," his profile reads. "With immense defensive range, a physical edge and a nuanced shutdown game, it's easy to see why. A defensive stalwart with room to grow, he routinely shuts down the opposition's best."

Kettles is probably not going to contribute much offensively - he put up five goals and 13 points in 53 games - but paired with an offensive defenseman, he can complete an effective tandem. He was actually teammates with Penguins' prospect Owen Pickering during their shared time with Swift Current from 2022-24.

Clifton, 30, is a journeyman defenseman who is owed $3.33 million through the end of the 2024-25 season. The 5-foot-11, 195-pound blueliner registered one goal and 16 points - primarily on Buffalo's third pairing - last season.

Timmins was acquired by the Penguins at the 2025 trade deadline - along with forward Connor Dewar - from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a 2025 fifth-round pick. Like Dewar, he is set to become a restricted free agent, and it was unclear whether or not the Penguins were planning to bring him back next season. 

He registered three goals and 15 points in 68 games between the Leafs and Penguins last season - with seven of those points coming in 17 games with Pittsburgh.

Belliveau, 22, was selected in the fifth round (154th overall) by the Penguins in the 2021 NHL Draft. He had split time between the ECHL and AHL over the last two seasons, registering 19 goals and 61 points in 119 combined games.

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The Buffalo Sabres were slated to select near the top of the second round on day two of the 2025 NHL Draft in Los Angeles, but they pulled off a trade sending the 39th overall pick and defenseman Connor Clifton to the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Conor Timmins and minor leaguer Isaac Beliveau. 

The 30-year-old was a free agent signing of the Sabres in 2023 after spending his first five seasons with the Boston Bruins. The New Jersey native signed with Buffalo in part because of former head coach Don Granato, who coached him as part of the US National Development Program and potentially as a right-handed compliment to either Rasmus Dahlin or Owen Power. In 152 games, Clifton had 34 points (5 goals, 29 assists) and played mostly on the bottom pairing.   

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Timmins, 26, was originally a second-round pick of the Colorado Avalanche who was traded to Arizona in a 2021 deal for goalie Darcy Kuemper. He was dealt the following year to the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he played for nearly three seasons. At the 2025 trade deadline, the right-handed defenseman was sent to Pittsburgh. Beliveau, 22, was a 2021 fifth-round pick of the Penguins who has split time between the ECHL and AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton the last two seasons.

The reason for the deal appears to be mostly financial, as Clifton was slated to earn $3.33 million in the final year of his three-year contract. Timmins is a larger right-handed defenseman, an arbitration-eligible RFA, coming off a 15-point season and in arbitration will undoubtedly make less than what Clifton is making.   

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Blake Fiddler Brings Size and Skill to Seattle Kraken.

June 28, 2025 - Blake Fiddler, an 18-year-old defenseman from the WHL’s Edmonton Oil Kings, was selected 37th overall by the Seattle Kraken in the 2025 NHL Draft. He was the 10th WHL player chosen and the first of the second round.

Standing at 6'5" and weighing 220 pounds, Fiddler is known for his size, mobility, and two-way game. Originally a forward, he transitioned to defense at age 10 and developed into a standout blue-liner. In his draft year, he led all Oil Kings defensemen with 33 points in 64 games and was ranked 26th among North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting.

Internationally, Fiddler captained Team USA at the 2024 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and played a key role at the 2025 U18 World Championship in his hometown of Frisco, Texas. The son of former NHLer Vernon Fiddler, Blake plays with physicality and poise but is still refining his consistency under pressure.

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