The 2024 NHL draft class produced 225 selections across seven rounds, and by the end of the 2025-26 season, 20 of those players had appeared in an NHL game. All 20 were skaters. Not one goaltender from the class had played.
Macklin Celebrini, taken first overall by San Jose, has 178 points in 152 games. The second highest total in the class is 64. No first-overall pick in recent memory has opened a career this far ahead of everyone drafted alongside him.
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2024 NHL draft class stats after two completed seasons
Every figure covers the 2024-25 and 2025-26 regular seasons, and nothing beyond them.
| Player | Pick | Round | Games | Goals | Assists | Points | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macklin Celebrini | 1 | 1 | 152 | 70 | 108 | 178 | SJS |
| Ivan Demidov | 5 | 1 | 84 | 20 | 44 | 64 | MTL |
| Beckett Sennecke | 3 | 1 | 82 | 23 | 37 | 60 | ANA |
| Artyom Levshunov | 2 | 1 | 86 | 2 | 28 | 30 | CHI |
| Zeev Buium | 12 | 1 | 76 | 6 | 20 | 26 | VAN |
| Matvei Gridin | 28 | 1 | 37 | 6 | 14 | 20 | CGY |
| Igor Chernyshov | 33 | 2 | 28 | 9 | 10 | 19 | SJS |
| Berkly Catton | 8 | 1 | 66 | 7 | 10 | 17 | SEA |
| Sam Dickinson | 11 | 1 | 72 | 1 | 13 | 14 | SJS |
| Zayne Parekh | 9 | 1 | 38 | 5 | 5 | 10 | CGY |
| Cole Hutson | 43 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 10 | WSH |
| Konsta Helenius | 14 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4 | BUF |
| Ilya Protas | 75 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | WSH |
| Sacha Boisvert | 18 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | CHI |
| Carter Yakemchuk | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | OTT |
| Michael Brandsegg-Nygård | 15 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | DET |
| Connor Clattenburg | 160 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | EDM |
| Harrison Brunicke | 44 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | PIT |
| Jett Luchanko | 13 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | PHI |
| Nikita Prishchepov | 217 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | COL |
2024 NHL draft class points and the gap at the top
Celebrini’s 178 points are 2.8 times the next highest total in his class.
Ivan Demidov, taken fifth by Montreal, has 64 points in 84 games, a rate close to three-quarters of a point per game. Beckett Sennecke, third overall, has 60 in 82. Both are producing at a level that would normally mark a draft’s best player.
Below the top three, the class divides cleanly between forwards and defensemen. Artyom Levshunov, taken second overall, has 30 points in 86 games with only two goals, which is a defenseman’s start rather than a disappointment. Zeev Buium at 26 and Sam Dickinson at 14 are in the same position and the same situation.
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The 2024 NHL draft class rankings against the draft order
Two seasons is not long enough to rank a draft class, and this page is a record rather than a verdict.
Demidov went fifth and sits second. Sennecke went third and sits third. Matvei Gridin, taken 28th, has 20 points in 37 games, which is more than Berkly Catton from pick 8 and Zayne Parekh from pick 9. Igor Chernyshov, a second-round pick at 33, has 19 points in 28 games, the best per-game rate of anyone in the class outside the top three.
Going the other way, Carter Yakemchuk from pick 7 and Jett Luchanko from pick 13 had played a handful of games each by the end of the window. Nothing follows from that for players this early in a career, which is precisely why a class drafted two years ago should not be graded.
The deepest pick in the class to reach the NHL is Nikita Prishchepov at 217th overall, in the seventh round, with ten games for Colorado. For what seventh-round picks have historically gone on to do, see the best NHL players drafted in the 7th round.
How many of the 2024 NHL draft class have played an NHL game
20 of 225, by the end of the 2025-26 season. That is under one in ten, and the comparison with the older classes is the point: the 2023 class had 42 after three seasons and the 2022 class had 76 after four.
Read those three figures together and the shape of a draft becomes clear. A class does not arrive at once. It arrives over roughly a decade, and the share that has played doubles with each of the first few seasons.
Not one goaltender from the 2024 NHL draft class had played
This is the cleanest fact on the page. By the end of the 2025-26 season, no goaltender drafted in 2024 had appeared in an NHL game.
It is also the least surprising. Goaltenders develop more slowly than any other position, and the pattern repeats in the neighboring classes: the 2023 class had two goaltenders with NHL games after three seasons, and the 2022 class had four after four seasons, none with more than eight wins. A drafted goaltender who reaches the league inside two years is the exception rather than the timetable.
Of the 20 skaters who had played, ten are Canadian, four Russian, two American and two Belarusian, with one Finn and one Norwegian.
The 2024 draft ran seven rounds and 225 selections at the Sphere in Paradise, Nevada, on 28 and 29 June 2024, as recorded by Wikipedia’s page on the draft. Career figures are regular-season totals from the NHL’s own statistics service, covering the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons only. Hall of Fame references in this series use the Hockey Hall of Fame’s roll call.
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