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2025 NHL Draft

Melvin Novotny in the 2025 NHL Draft

Buffalo Sabres selected Melvin Novotny 195th overall in the 2025 NHL Draft, with the 3rd pick of round 7.

He was the 25th of the 30 Swedes selected that year. It was the seventh of the 9 picks Buffalo Sabres made in the draft. Of the 224 players selected in 2025, 10 have played in the NHL regular season. Melvin Novotny is still waiting for his debut.

Overall pick
195
Round and pick
Round 7, pick 3
Drafting team
BUFBuffalo Sabres
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 192–198 in the 2025 draft

  1. 192Arvid DrottRNo NHL gamesFLA
  2. 193Caleb HeilGTBL
  3. 194Ilya KanarskyGCHI
  4. 195Melvin NovotnyLNo NHL gamesBUF
  5. 196Brendan McMorrowCLAK
  6. 197Brendan DunphyDFLA
  7. 198Jeremy LorangerCCBJ

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

25th
of 30 Swedes selected
112th
of 131 forwards selected

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

First Swedes selected

  1. 3Anton FrondellC27 GP · 17 PCHI
  2. 16Victor EklundR15 GP · 6 PNYI
  3. 28Sascha BoumedienneDWPG
  4. 37Milton GästrinCNo NHL gamesWSH
  5. 44Eddie GenborgRNo NHL gamesDET
  6. 45Eric NilsonCANA
  7. 52Theodor HallquisthDNo NHL gamesMIN
  8. 54Theo StockseliusCNo NHL gamesCGY
  9. 55Jakob Ihs WozniakRVGK
  10. 61Liam PetterssonDNo NHL gamesBOS

+ 20 more

Every Swede in the 2025 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Melvin Novotny has not played an NHL game yet.

The team's draft

Buffalo Sabres picks in the 2025 draft

  1. 9Radim MrtkaDBUF
  2. 71David BedkowskiDBUF
  3. 103Matous KucharcikCBUF
  4. 116Samuel MelocheGBUF
  5. 135Noah LabergeDBUF
  6. 167Ashton SchultzCBUF
  7. 195Melvin NovotnyLNo NHL gamesBUF
  8. 199Yevgeni ProkhorovGBUF
  9. 219Ryan RucinskiCBUF