NYLANDERS Select Defenseman Matthew Schafer First in 2025 NHL DRAFT

New York Island residents Matthew Chevir made the number 1 selection in 2025 NHL draft Friday.

The 17 -year -old is 6 feet 2 and who Hamilton, Ontario.

The past two seasons spent Erie Uters in the Hockey League in Ontario.

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Shafer played only 17 games last year before breaking the collarbone in December, but his acumen on both ends of the ice still pushes him to the top of almost all drafts.

Schaefer is only the fifth defender who was generally formulated in the NHL draft since 2000, and the first since Owen Power went to Bovalo in 2021.

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Chevir persists through the tragedy to reach this teacher. Shaver’s mother, Jennifer, died of cancer 16 months ago, and carried the last deaths of Malik Foxes, Jim Waters, and the Pallet family.

When he pulled a chef for him Carrot For the first time, before the pink ribbon patch on the chest, which is a awareness of breast cancer before storming tears.

San Jose Sharks Second chooses, Chicago Blackhawks occupies the third place in the newly decentralized draft at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

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The inhabitants of the islands won the selection first in a talent draft.

There was no absolute lock to choose No. 1 in this field, although Shaver appeared clearly at the top.

The draft also lacks the central coordination, which has long been an essential element in this annual exercise. Mostly, most of the 32 executives of the 32nds are at home, and not in the floor draft at the Peacock Theater in the center of Los Angeles.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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