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2025 NHL Draft

Braeden Cootes in the 2025 NHL Draft

Vancouver Canucks selected Braeden Cootes 15th overall in the 2025 NHL Draft.

It was the first of the 6 picks Vancouver Canucks made in the draft. Of the 224 players selected in 2025, 10 have played in the NHL regular season. Only 8 of them have played more games than his 3.

Overall pick
15
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 15
Drafting team
VANVancouver Canucks
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 12–18 in the 2025 draft

  1. 12Jack NesbittCPHI
  2. 13Carter BearLDET
  3. 14Jackson SmithDCBJ
  4. 15Braeden CootesC3 GP · 0 PVAN
  5. 16Victor EklundR18 GP · 10 PNYI
  6. 17Kashawn AitchesonDNo NHL gamesNYI
  7. 18Cole ReschnyCCGY

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2025 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2025 class

15th
of 224 players selected
12th
of 131 forwards selected

Counted in draft order across the whole draft. The position is the one listed at the draft.

First off the board

  1. 1Matthew SchaeferD99 GP · 76 PNYI
  2. 2Michael MisaC65 GP · 31 PSJS
  3. 3Anton FrondellC30 GP · 17 PCHI
  4. 4Caleb DesnoyersCUTA
  5. 5Brady MartinC3 GP · 1 PNSH
  6. 6Porter MartoneR29 GP · 18 PPHI
  7. 7James HagensC19 GP · 13 PBOS
  8. 8Jake O'BrienCNo NHL gamesSEA
  9. 9Radim MrtkaDBUF
  10. 10Roger McQueenC13 GP · 3 PANA

+ 214 more

The 2025 NHL Draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Braeden Cootes made his NHL debut on October 9, 2025, 104 days after the draft.

3
Games
0
Goals
0
Assists
0
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Vancouver Canucks picks in the 2025 draft

  1. 15Braeden CootesC3 GP · 0 PVAN
  2. 47Alexei MedvedevGVAN
  3. 65Kieren DervinCVAN
  4. 143Wilson BjörckCNo NHL gamesVAN
  5. 175Gabriel ChiarotRVAN
  6. 207Matthew LansingCVAN