The Florida Panthers added six prospects on the second day of the 2025 NHL Draft at Peacock Theater In Los Angeles.
After sitting out the first three rounds, the Panthers selected Danish forward Mads Kongsbak Klyvo midway through the fourth round with the 112th overall pick. Klyvo scored 14 goals and added 15 assists in 42 games for Vastra Frolunda in Sweden’s J20 league. In six postseason games, he produced four goals and four assists. He also played four postseason games in the Swedish Hockey League for Forlunda.
The Panthers closed the fourth-round by taking left wing Shea Busch with the 128th pick. After joining the Everett Silvertips (WHL) from the Vernon Vipers (BCHL), Busch scored 11 goals and added eight assists in 39 games. He was more effective in the playoffs, putting up six goals and five assists in 11 games. Busch is planning to join the Penn State Nittany Lions at some point.
Florida opened the fifth round by selecting right wing Shamar Moses with the 129th overall pick. This pick originally belonged to San Jose. Moses began his second season with the Barrie Colts, where he played five scoreless games before he was traded to the North Bay Battalion. He totaled 12 goals and 36 assists in 61 games with North Bay. He collected three assists in five postseason games.
With its sixth-rounder, the Panthers went Swedish for the second time, selecting forward Arvid Drott with the 192nd overall pick. In his second season with Djurgardens’ J20 squad, Drott produced 18 goals and 18 assists in 40 regular season games. He totaled three goals and six points in nine playoff games.
With the seventh round underway, the Panthers traded its sixth-round pick in 2026 to the Chicago Blackhawks for the 197th overall pick and used it to select towering defenseman Brendan Dunphy of the Wenatchee Wild. After joining the Wild from Langley of the BCHL after his rights were traded by the Regina Pats, Dunphy scored four goals and added 18 assists in 47 WHL games.
The Panthers made goaltender Yegor Midlak the final pick of this year’s draft when they took him with the 224 overall pick. The 18-year-old is already 6′-6″ and saw limited action (5 games) in Russia’s MHL. He posted a 2.32 GAA in ten games with Spartak Moscova’s U18 team.