Elite Prospects 2025 NHL Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 6-ranked Anaheim Ducks

In the past couple of seasons, the Anaheim Ducks have graduated Cutter Gauthier, Pavel Mintyukov, Olen Zellweger, Tristian Luneau, Sam Colangelo, and more by our Calder eligibility standards – great for the NHL team, catastrophic by trivial prospect pool ranking standards. 

Yet the Ducks still find themselves comfortably inside our top-10 systems, as they do every year. 

The secret to their success? Every pick is spent on players with clear NHL dimensions and roles, whether that’s a middle-six power forward or a mobile shutdown defenceman. They value size, maybe more than any other team, but consistently find the skilled big players and supplement them with plenty of smaller, yet projectable and skilled players. 

So, let’s dive into a prospect pool that will surely generate at least five NHLe