The Bruins Have Drafted Their 2025 Class! | NHL Draft Special

The Bruins Have Drafted Their 2025 Class! | NHL Draft Special

that we are recapping the entire 2025 NHL draft as it relates to the Boston Bruins Razer and Brick with me but of course we’re going to be looking at other notable picks around the league we’re going to stick with the Bees for now uh James Haggins of Boston College chosen in the first round seventh overall and with the 51st pick in the second round the Boston Bruins chose William Moore in round two he’s going to play for the BC Eagles uh and spent last season with US national development team and let’s recap the rest of the picks we’re going to deep dive into William Moore but just wanted to show you the rest of the picks done by the Boston Bruins so there it is james Higgins William Moore Liam Person Cooper Simpson and more but the guy who knows most about those selected Ryan Nato and Jud Sat they went one-on-one ryan Nato the director of amateur scouting for the Boston Bruins let’s hear from them right now
uh Ryan let’s start here big picture a lot of the picks that you made today if you look at it in total what do you feel like this group adds to the organization
well I think first and foremost we added uh a lot of high-end ability a lot of offensive upside some some skill some pace um just a few players that have some excitement with the puck the headliner obviously uh came on night one and that’s James Higgins and if I had asked you uh back in January that or what your reaction would be you know if James Higgins was going to be able to fall to you at seven what would have been your reaction back then well I would have been really surprised one that that you know to be in a spot to to pick James Hagens first and then you know to have him available a player with with that much excitement with the puck that much ability to dictate the game uh that’s just a real exciting pick for us beyond some of the guys that or beyond James Hagens who was taken in the first round who were you really excited was available to you when you started picking in the second round and beyond well I mean certainly when when we look at Will Moore and what he brings to the table that that’s a player that for us you know we certainly had some some very high ratings on him and think you know there’s a lot of skill and ability that can really help uh you know augment our group uh you know and and throughout it it’s it’s a unique process in that as you watch it like there there was a point where you know there were a number of players right before even we picked uh Will Moore that there were there were a lot of players on the board and you’re like wow this is a good group like just excitement to be able to be in a spot to to make a pick there in the big picture and you’ve been doing this for the w for a while just how vital is it to be able to find legitimate NHL players beyond the first round Yeah I mean obviously a lot of focus goes into th those those first round and higherend picks and rightfully so but yeah we we’ve got to work really hard to find players throughout the draft that can add some value to the organization in terms of being able to impact um at all different spots you know it’s it’s obviously a lot harder to find a top line or top six or even a middle six or a top pair D type later in the draft but there’s there’s a lot of value to being able to find players that can play for your NHL team or become an asset to play for someone else’s team for the last couple of years uh the GM Don Sweeney has mentioned I I really need to be able to give my amateur guys more picks more swings i haven’t been able to do that because the team has used some of those assets to get others to help them at the NHL level i guess with that in mind because you had a lot of opportunities how different uh was it for you and the staff this season for the draft yeah it was it was certainly unique on our end to be in a situation to make a lot of picks um particularly a a high pick in you know the first round and have second round picks like it’s you know it’s kind of funny because I’ve been with the Bruins for a long time and been with with Don Sweeney and Cam Neely for a long time and and he’s he’s typically apologizing to us for not having picks but we we obviously were in this to win so we love being in the in the playoffs and and love chasing to get another cup like so it it’s you get over the disappointment of man the season didn’t really turn out the way we envisioned but then you’re quickly excited to say hey we can help be part of the process to restock this and get us back quickly in in the right direction so you know it was it’s kind of bittersweet to to look at it and say you normally we don’t have this this amount of picks and you know but now Don comes to us and says “Hey we’ve got some capital you guys got to do your stuff.” So you know certainly energized the group and and and really focused on how we can bring in some players that that have an opportunity to make a big impact for the organization ryan last thing and I really appreciate your time now that the draft has ended how long does it take uh for you and your staff to be able to evaluate how successful this class is and what do you use uh to judge those attributes
yeah so we’re going to we’ll take some time to actually first go back and and talk about and reflect on how the draft played out the actual execution and process of moving around the board and and exploring potential trades and and different scenarios then we’ll obviously we’ll watch our guys at development camp and that’s just the the the first real step once you draft them it takes almost draft classes up to five years to really have a good feel for where the whole class went where we may have undervalued certain players where we maybe overvalued others so we’ll we’ll continue that process we always reflect and and look at different ways that that we can do things better but we’ll we’ll certainly spend some time sort of just decompressing for a bit but then quickly into dev camp we don’t have a lot of time there and then you know we really go into and turn the clock pretty quickly on the next set of draft picks so we’ll start scouting as soon as next week we’ll have guys going to different events and starting to you know really tie together next year’s draft ryan thanks a ton we appreciate it no problem thanks Jud it’s definitely a job that never ends um I said this to Don Sweeney as someone who has decision paralysis I’d rather do anything than that i I’ll stick to this career uh Brick what stood out for you from what Ryan Nato had to say about this year’s draft class
yeah real quickly two things you know if you’re going to be a consistently quality hockey team in the NHL and compete for Stanley Cubs you got to do what you got to draft and you got to develop you know you can’t forget the second half of that phrase draft and develop so they’ve done their analysis they’ve identified the young players that they they targeted went out and drafted now the key is can they develop these players to you know to be future Bruins and help this team win you know a lot of games during the regular season and even though this isn’t relevant because it happened 15 years ago but when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 2011
that team was full of impactful second and third round players and I always keep that in mind that there’s value picks to be made in day two of the draft and you hope that’s what the Bruins were able to accomplish today i was going to go with the development part and and that’s where the second third round picks that’s where they really flourish from great development and and having opportunities and being put in the proper place there there’s tons of skill in these guys that are in that they’re drafted in the seventh round for that matter they just haven’t maybe been on the same path development wise prior to the draft but you can put them on a proper path to really get the most out of them so the draft is one thing and and the Bruins haven’t had a top 10 pick in forever they they haven’t had a lot of picks in the first two rounds in the last five six seven years but let’s not overlook the fact that yes they have these picks now and that’s fun and and it makes for a great show today but really the work does it’s just it’s it’s strictly the starting line it it is it is anything but that
and we’re going to get a little taste or they’re going to get a little taste of what that development might look like at development camp which begins Monday yours truly will be there ness will be covering that

The Boston Bruins made seven picks in the 2025 NHL Draft. Sophia Jurksztowicz, Andrew Raycroft, and Andy Brickley recap the chosen group and discuss the importance of developing the young picks to be ready for the NHL. Also, hear from Judd Sirott and Bruins Director of Amateur Scouting Ryan Nadeau on what the new group adds to the organization.