The 2022 NHL draft class produced 225 selections across seven rounds, and by the end of the 2025-26 season, 76 of those players had appeared in an NHL game. 72 skaters and four goaltenders. The other 149 had not.
Juraj Slafkovský, taken first overall by Montreal in front of its own crowd, leads the class with 282 games and 184 points across the four completed seasons. Third-place is the one worth stopping on: Lane Hutson, a defenseman Montreal took 62nd overall in the second round, with 146 points and 128 assists in 166 games.
2022 NHL draft class stats after four completed seasons
Every figure covers the 2022-23 through 2025-26 regular seasons, and nothing beyond them.
| Player | Pick | Round | Games | Goals | Assists | Points | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juraj Slafkovský | 1 | 1 | 282 | 72 | 112 | 184 | MTL |
| Logan Cooley | 3 | 1 | 211 | 69 | 83 | 152 | UTA |
| Lane Hutson | 62 | 2 | 166 | 18 | 128 | 146 | MTL |
| Cutter Gauthier | 5 | 1 | 159 | 61 | 53 | 114 | ANA |
| Shane Wright | 4 | 1 | 169 | 36 | 42 | 78 | NSH |
| Pavel Mintyukov | 10 | 1 | 204 | 17 | 52 | 69 | ANA |
| Frank Nazar | 13 | 1 | 122 | 28 | 40 | 68 | CHI |
| Marco Kasper | 8 | 1 | 159 | 28 | 28 | 56 | DET |
| Jimmy Snuggerud | 23 | 1 | 77 | 22 | 33 | 55 | STL |
| Simon Nemec | 2 | 1 | 155 | 16 | 33 | 49 | CGY |
| Denton Mateychuk | 12 | 1 | 120 | 17 | 27 | 44 | CBJ |
| Fraser Minten | 38 | 2 | 107 | 20 | 20 | 40 | BOS |
| Matt Savoie | 9 | 1 | 87 | 18 | 20 | 38 | EDM |
| Ryan Greene | 57 | 2 | 83 | 12 | 17 | 29 | CHI |
| Jiri Kulich | 28 | 1 | 75 | 18 | 11 | 29 | BUF |
| Danila Yurov | 24 | 1 | 73 | 12 | 15 | 27 | MIN |
| Matthew Poitras | 54 | 2 | 69 | 7 | 20 | 27 | BOS |
| Noah Ostlund | 16 | 1 | 68 | 11 | 16 | 27 | BUF |
| Liam Ohgren | 19 | 1 | 97 | 11 | 14 | 25 | VAN |
| Noah Laba | 111 | 4 | 74 | 9 | 15 | 24 | NYR |
| Kevin Korchinski | 7 | 1 | 105 | 6 | 13 | 19 | CHI |
| Sam Rinzel | 25 | 1 | 63 | 4 | 15 | 19 | CHI |
| Lian Bichsel | 18 | 1 | 88 | 8 | 9 | 17 | DAL |
| Conor Geekie | 11 | 1 | 66 | 9 | 8 | 17 | TBL |
| Dominic James | 173 | 6 | 43 | 7 | 8 | 15 | TBL |
| Nikita Grebenkin | 135 | 5 | 62 | 4 | 10 | 14 | PHI |
| Elias Pettersson | 80 | 3 | 98 | 4 | 9 | 13 | VAN |
| David Jiricek | 6 | 1 | 85 | 2 | 11 | 13 | PHI |
| Ivan Miroshnichenko | 20 | 1 | 52 | 5 | 8 | 13 | WSH |
| Jani Nyman | 49 | 2 | 40 | 7 | 6 | 13 | SEA |
| Victor Mancini | 159 | 5 | 55 | 2 | 9 | 11 | VAN |
| Stephen Halliday | 104 | 4 | 30 | 4 | 7 | 11 | OTT |
| Luca Del Bel Belluz | 44 | 2 | 30 | 3 | 7 | 10 | CBJ |
| Jonathan Lekkerimaki | 15 | 1 | 37 | 5 | 4 | 9 | VAN |
| Rutger McGroarty | 14 | 1 | 32 | 4 | 5 | 9 | PIT |
| Alex Bump | 133 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 9 | PHI |
| Reid Schaefer | 32 | 1 | 47 | 6 | 2 | 8 | NSH |
| Brad Lambert | 30 | 1 | 31 | 3 | 5 | 8 | WPG |
| Seamus Casey | 46 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | NJD |
| Isaiah George | 98 | 4 | 37 | 1 | 5 | 6 | NYI |
| Elias Salomonsson | 55 | 2 | 32 | 1 | 4 | 5 | WPG |
| Isaac Howard | 31 | 1 | 29 | 2 | 3 | 5 | EDM |
| Sandis Vilmanis | 157 | 5 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 5 | FLA |
| Jared Wright | 169 | 6 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 4 | LAK |
| Maveric Lamoureux | 29 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 4 | UTA |
| Tristan Luneau | 53 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ANA |
| Adam Sykora | 63 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 4 | NYR |
| Owen Pickering | 21 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 3 | PIT |
| Joakim Kemell | 17 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 3 | NSH |
| Cam Lund | 34 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 3 | SJS |
| Marek Alscher | 93 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | FLA |
| Owen Beck | 33 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 2 | MTL |
| Hunter Haight | 47 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | MIN |
| Kirill Kudryavtsev | 208 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | VAN |
| Adam Engstrom | 92 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | MTL |
| Jared Davidson | 130 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | MTL |
| Danil Zhilkin | 77 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | WPG |
| Ludvig Jansson | 125 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | FLA |
| Angus Booth | 116 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | LAK |
| Hunter McDonald | 165 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | PHI |
| Cole O’Hara | 114 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | NSH |
| Jack Devine | 221 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | FLA |
| Aleksanteri Kaskimaki | 73 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | STL |
| Abram Wiebe | 209 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | CGY |
| Nathan Gaucher | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ANA |
| Jorian Donovan | 136 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | OTT |
| Kenny Connors | 103 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | LAK |
| David Spacek | 153 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MIN |
| Maksymilian Szuber | 163 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MTL |
| Frederic Brunet | 132 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | BOS |
| Devin Kaplan | 69 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | SEA |
| Michael Milne | 89 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none |
The 2022 NHL draft class points leaders
Four players have cleared 100 points, and their order doesn’t match the draft order.
Slafkovský at 184 and Cooley at 152 were taken first and third, which is the draft order behaving as intended. Cutter Gauthier at 114 went fifth. Between Cooley and Gauthier sits Lane Hutson at pick 62, and the way he got there is unusual: 128 of his 146 points are assists, which, for a defenseman four seasons into a career, is a rate very few players in any draft have matched.
Further down, Pavel Mintyukov has played 204 games, the third highest in the class, for 69 points. Shane Wright, the fourth pick, has 78 points in 169 games. Simon Nemec, taken second overall, has 49 in 155, which places him behind Jimmy Snuggerud from pick 23 and Frank Nazar from pick 13.
The 2022 NHL draft class point leaders outside the first round
Lane Hutson is the obvious name, but he is not alone, and the pattern says something about where the class’s value sat.
Fraser Minten went 38th and has 40 points in 107 games. Ryan Greene went 57th, Matthew Poitras 54th, and both have reached 27 points or more. Noah Laba went 111th in the fourth round and has 24 points in 74 games, which makes him the latest pick in the class to reach 20 points. Deeper still, Dominic James at 173 and Nikita Grebenkin at 135 have both played more than 40 games.
42 of the 72 skaters who have played came from outside the first round, which is more than half of them. For what late picks have historically become, see our pieces on the third round and the seventh.
How many of the 2022 NHL draft class have played an NHL game
76 of 225, by the end of the 2025-26 season. That is about one in three, which is a markedly higher share than the 2023 class had reached after three seasons, and the extra season is most of the reason.
Only four goaltenders from the class had played, and none of them had won more than eight NHL games. Dennis Hildeby, taken 122nd, has eight wins in 26 games. Sergei Murashov at 118 and Nikke Kokko at 58 have one win each. Vyacheslav Buteyets at 178 has played once. Goaltenders arrive later than skaters, so this is the part of the class most likely to look different later.
Where the 2022 NHL draft class came from
Of the 72 skaters who played, 26 are Canadian, and 19 are American, a higher North American share than the class’s first round suggests. Seven are Swedish, five Russian, four Czech and four Finnish, three Slovak, and there is one each from Austria, Switzerland, Latvia and Poland.
The American group is the strongest at the top, with Cooley, Hutson, Gauthier, Nazar and Snuggerud all inside the leading nine.
The 2022 draft ran seven rounds and 225 selections at the Bell Centre in Montreal on 7 and 8 July 2022, as recorded by Wikipedia’s page on the draft.
Career figures are regular season totals from the NHL’s own statistics service, covering the 2022-23 through 2025-26 seasons only. Hall of Fame references in this series use the Hockey Hall of Fame’s roll call.
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