Djurgarden Pair Leads NHL Central Scouting 2025 Final European Skater Rankings

NHL Central Scouting released its final rankingsfor the 2025 NHL Entry Draft on Tuesday and, among the internationalskaters, to no ones surprise, the Djurgarden pairof centerAnton Frondell and rightwinger VictorEklund top the list.

Inhis mid-season rankings, THNs RyanKennedy ranked Eklund fifth and Frondell 10th at this years draft,while THNs TonyFerrari ranked them both among the top prospects to watch in Europethis season.

Bothplayers are on the Djurgarden team that is about to take on localStockholm rival AIK in the Allsvenskan finals, with the winnerearning a spot in next seasons SHL.

Bothplayers are currently signed with the club through the 2025-26season.CenterMilton Gastrin of MoDo of the top Swedish junior league takes thirdplace, while the first non-Swede is ranked fourth in the form ofVojtechCihar,who had 10 points in 51 regular-season and playoff games in the CzechExtraliga this season.

Thetop Russian-based player is Alexander Zharovsky, who plays in the MHL that countrys top junior circuit.

|n fact, seven of the top 10 are Swedish-based players.

EddieGenborg in sixth scored two goals in 28 games for Linkopingthis season, and has already signed withTimra for next season.

Another Djurgarden center, Eric Nilson, is seventh and Jakob Ihs Wozniak of Lulea is eighth.The first two defensemen on the list Russian Kurban Limatov andSwede Theodor Hallquisth round out the top 10.1.AntonFrondell C Djurgarden (HockeyAllsvenskan, SWE)2.VictorEklund RW Djurgarden (HockeyAllsvenskan, SWE)3.Milton Gastrin C MoDo (SWE U-20)4.VojtechCiharLW Engerie Karlovy Vary(CZEExtraliga)5.Alexander Zharovsky RW Salavat Yulaev Ufa (RUS MHL)6.Eddie Genborg RW Linkoping (SHL)7.Eric Nilson C Djurgarden (SWE U-20)8.Jakob Ihs Wozniak C Lulea (SWE U-20)9.Kurban Limatov D Dynamo Moscow (RUS MHL)10.Theodor Hallquisth D Orebro(SWE U-20)Victor Eklund: Its Gone Quite Well So Ill Just Continue With ItVictor Eklund is off to a flying start in his draft year.

The 18-year-old left winger has seven goals and four assists in 13 games for Djurgarden in the HockeyAllsvenskan, Swedens second-tier professional league.

Last Friday, he netted a hat trick in a 7-6 shootout loss to Bjorkloven.Beyonedthis list, thetop Finland-based player is Lasse Boelius of Assatat 12th,the top player in Slovakia is TomasPobezal of HK Nitra in 27th,and the top player ranked in Switzerland is Robin Antanen of EV Zugin 74th.Bycontrast, the top two ranked international goalies are both in Russia Pyotr Andreyanov and Semyon Frolov of CSKA Moscow and SpartakMoscow repectively, both in the MHL.

Elijah Neuenschwander ofFribourg-Gotteronin Switzerland is third andMans Goos of Farjestad in Sweden is fourth.

Find NHL Central Scouting's final 2025 draft rankings here..

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