Amidst all the BSH Community Draft Board content, we still have quite a few interesting mid-round projections that we didn’t quite get to in our big board. Particularly, considering the difficulty of projecting the position, there are a ton of goaltenders that are going to be available from the third round onwards.
Projected first-round pick Joshua Ravensbergen has really taken over as the consensus first goalie to be picked in the 2025 NHL Draft, with Russian goaltender Pyotr Andreyanov and Canadian Jack Ivankovic behind him. After taking two goalies (Carson Bjarnason and Yegor Zavragin) in 2023, the Flyers didn’t take a single goaltender last year, and might be looking at this year’s seven top-50 picks as an opportunity to continue building a system that already has a fair amount of depth at the position. So, who might those mid-round goalies be outside of the public consensus’ top three?
Alexei Medvedev, London Knights (OHL)
DOB: September 10, 2007
2.79 GAA, .912 SV% in 34 games
To me, Medvedev is the chalk Flyers pick. There’s the London connection, the Russian connection, etc etc. It just makes a ton of sense for the Flyers to use one of the late seconds or the early third on Medvedev. For some, Medvedev is in the running for the first goaltender to be taken post-Ravensbergen. He’s a bit of an interesting case among the Russian goaltenders, as his development path has instead taken the St-Petersburg born goalie to Canadian juniors instead of the Russian MHL/KHL route. It’ll be interesting to see if that makes him a surprisingly high selection, as NHL teams could actually have a significant influence on the development of a Russian goaltending prospect with Medvedev.
To his actual game, Medvedev is a 6-foot-3, athletic goaltender that is pretty strong positionally within the net. He’s going to have the bulk of the starts in London next year too, as overager Austin Elliott will age out of the OHL. It’s really a prime development position for a goaltender in Canadian juniors, and we all know the Flyers’ connection to the London Knights. Keep an eye on this one.
Petteri Rimpinen, Kiekko-Espoo U20 (Liiga)
DOB: April 25, 2006
2.35 GAA, .912 SV% in 30 games
Rimpinen is a really interesting candidate for the Flyers in this draft as well. As the strongest Finnish goaltender of this class, Rimpinen has performed exceptionally well at almost every level, including the highest tier Finnish league this past season. He’s slightly older than a lot of players in this class as an early 2006 goalie, but that really shouldn’t be held against him, considering his performance at World Juniors. Across 10 games in U-20 international competitions, Rimpinen posted a 1.79 GAA with a .915 SV%. He took over in Finland’s World Juniors semifinal win over Sweden, where his 43 stops carried his side to the final. After an excellent season, Rimpinen made lots of scouts wonder why he was originally passed over in the 2024 draft.
The Flyers connection? Rimpinen’s U20 and Liiga team is the same squad that 2024 fourth rounder Heikki Ruohonen played for, so it’s not like Rimpinen hasn’t been on the Flyers’ radar before. It wouldn’t be a big surprise to see the Flyers take a guy who is probably a familiar name within the organization.
Lucas Beckman, Baie-Comeau Drakkar (QMJHL)
DOB: August 23, 2007
2.65 GAA, .914 SV% in 52 games
At the U-18s, Beckman was the backup for Team Canada to Jack Ivankovic, posting a .955 SV% across two games started in the tournament. Aside from that, Beckman was perhaps the strongest draft-eligible goalie in the Q this season, given a heavy “starters” workload across 52 games for Baie-Comeau Drakkar. That’s a number of games that almost no one gets in their draft season, especially in the Q, so teams might really value the durability of Beckman in an era where young goalies are often eased into NHL-starter workload. He’s also newly 18 years old, so he has even more runway in his development than most of his counterparts in this draft.
Semyon Frolov, MHK Spartak Moskva (MHL)
DOB: January 17, 2007
Split time between three MHL teams this season
Amidst all the uncertainty in Russia, there’s few organizations that have continued to have an immense scouting presence in the country to watch young players in the MHL/KHL. The Flyers, with the relationships they’ve built in the country before and since selecting Matvei Michkov, might have a bit more knowledge of some premier Russian goalie prospects than most. Frolov is one of those guys, and especially when we consider his fragmented development path, having boots on the ground might help a lot in evaluating the player.
Frolov has been touted in recent weeks as one of the top goaltenders in this draft, and maybe the best goaltender in Russia. The thing about Frolov is that he’s so early in his development path, considering his movement to three different organizations this season. He put up greater than a .910 SV% at all three stops, but it’s hard to judge Frolov’s performance across a disjointed 27 MHL games in his draft year.
On ice, Frolov is touted for his aggressiveness in net, and the athletic ability to make up for the times that he overcommits. Similar to Pyotr Andreyanov’s development, if Frolov can pick his spots to be aggressive, there could be a darn good goalie here. But, in contrast to Andreyanov’s 6-foot-0, Frolov stands at a more impressive 6-foot-3 – making for a more high-end projection with Frolov.
Patrick Quinlan, USNTDP
DOB: April 19, 2007
3.21 GAA, .886 SV% in 28 games
With his mediocre-to-bad numbers, a Quinlan pick would certainly be either a late-round selection or an undrafted free agent signing after the draft. He was on a USNTDP team that never made his life easy, with tons of high-danger chances thrown his way on a nightly basis. Those awful numbers probably are enough to sink his chances at being drafted this year, but he’ll have a chance either to sign with someone post-draft or rebuild his value to enter next year’s draft as an overager (similar to Rimpinen). He’ll be headed to a favorable development situation with the OHL’s Sarnia Sting, and has already committed to Notre Dame for the following season. Just feels like a guy who is destined for the 2026 Draft.
Quinlan was born and raised in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, and played with the Philadelphia Jr. Flyers in his earliest years. There’s probably some level of knowledge of Quinlan in the organization, so maybe the Flyers throw Quinlan a late round selection or at minimum an invite to development camp in July. Quinlan and Ryan Cameron of the NAHL’s Lone Star Brahmas are in the same type of group (likely undrafted, came through Flyers youth programs).
Massive Dudes (6’4” to 6’8”)
This subsection is a ton of guys who may go undrafted (like Quinlan), but also may be late-round picks for teams who take a flier on a goaltender’s massive frame. Something on the lines of the Flyers taking a flier on the 6-foot-8 Ivan Fedotov with a 7th rounder in 2015.
Trenten Bennett, Kemptville 73’s (CCHL)
2.92 GAA, .923 SV% in 31 CCHL games, 2.65 GAA, .923 SV% in 6 OHL games
Standing at a very large 6-foot-8, Bennett is an interesting case as an overage 2006er who was fairly dominant in the CCHL before making a six-game splash into the OHL with Owen Sound this past season. He’s headed to St. Lawrence University in 2026-27, so we’ll see if Bennett can continue to improve as a likely undrafted free agent option in the coming years.
Louis-Antoine Denault, Québec Remparts (QMJHL)
DOB: September 26, 2006
3.13 GAA, .902 SV% in 41 games
Another 6-foot-8 goalie, Denault “will get drafted” because of his size, as written by Elite Prospects. Also in their reports of Denault, he’s apparently a very technically messy goalie at this point in his development, so Denault is a considerable project as a boom-or-bust type of prospect.
Alexis Cournoyer, Cape Breton Eagles (QMJHL)
DOB: December 13, 2005
1.82 GAA, .942 SV% in 21 games
Like Denault and Bennett, Cournoyer is another overager who was passed on his first draft-eligible season. Cournoyer is likely to be drafted considering his standout season in the Q, where he impressed with his combination of size (6-foot-4) and really strong puck tracking abilities. He’s headed to one of the most well-oiled defensive machines in college hockey at Cornell, so there’s lots of room for Cournoyer to improve in a sheltered environment as he develops.
Måns Goos, Färjestad BK J20 (J20 Nationell)
DOB: May 5, 2007
3.17 GAA, .893 SV% in 24 games
Potentially the most fun “name” of this class, Goos is a 6-foot-5 Swedish goaltender that the Flyers may have some familiarity with, considering he’s on the same team that 2024 2nd rounder Jack Berglund is on. His counting stats aren’t impressive, and there hasn’t been a large sample of competition to project Goos with, but he’s worth keeping an eye on considering the Flyers connection.
Michal Pradel, Team Slovakia U18 (Slovakia2)
DOB: March 10, 2007
2.41 GAA, .899 SV% in 14 USHL games
At nearly 6-foot-5, Pradel has had a lot of helium at the end of this draft year due to his strong performance in the USHL and his role on Slovakia’s U18s roster. He was really good in the U18s, posting a 2.46 GAA and a .914 SV% in seven tournament games as Slovakia’s starter. Pradel is probably a pretty good shot-in-the-dark project candidate for a late round pick.
