Elite Prospects 2025 NHL Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 14-ranked Carolina Hurricanes

It's been the case for a while now, but still bares repeating: No other NHL team drafts and accumulates prospects like the Carolina Hurricanes.

Despite the lack of high first-round picks, their pool continues to rank ahead of the majority of organization due to its depth, evidenced by the number of players we ultimately felt like we had to include in this article. The Hurricanes' pool is filled by high risk, high reward picks; the vast majority of them will end up busting, but if one of them hits, it would've been all worth it. Jackson Blake and his last season's breakthrough is a good example of their strategy working as intended.

What also separates them is their preference for Russian prospects. They've picked nine of them in the past two drafts alone, and they constitute a large chunk of