The St. Louis Blues have three picks in the 2025 NHL Draft: Nos. 19, 147, 179. Here\u2019s what to expect.<\/p>\n
Beat writer analysis<\/p>\n
If the Blues keep the No. 19 pick, they feel confident they can get a quality center or defensive prospect. They would be ecstatic if the options included center Cole Reschny or defensemen Cameron Reid or Logan Hensler.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s probably two or three different tranches of elite players, and then you go down,” Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said. “At 19, we think there\u2019s a good tier of players there that we can get.\u201d<\/p>\n
If the Blues decided to trade down from the No. 19 pick, they could gain another draft pick in the deal. They are entering the night with just three selections, so the additional capital would be welcome. \u2014 Jeremy Rutherford<\/p>\n
Pronman’s team needs<\/p>\n
I thought defense was the Blues\u2019 biggest need going into the last draft, and they picked defenders with each of their first three picks. They have a great center prospect in Dalibor Dvorsky, but it falls off after him, and there isn\u2019t much coming at center otherwise.<\/p>\n
Names to watch<\/p>\n
In recent mock drafts, Corey Pronman has projected the following picks:<\/p>\n
19. Cameron Reid, D<\/p>\n
147. Everett Baldwin, D<\/p>\n
179. Jake Crawford, C<\/p>\n
(Photo of Blues GM Doug Armstrong: Jeff Vinnick \/ NHLI via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues have three picks in the 2025 NHL Draft: Nos. 19, 147, 179. Here\u2019s what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6,15,4473],"class_list":{"0":"post-163952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-draft","11":"tag-st-louis-blues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114758281109421574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}