Minnesota leads the way with 40 players on NHL Opening Night rosters

The 2024-25 NHL regular season begins on Tuesday, October 8th when the Seattle Kraken host the St. Louis Blues. The match will feature four (4) Minnesotans (Will Borgen – Moorhead, Justin Faulk – South St. Paul, Nick Leddy – Eden Prairie and Scott Perunovich – Hibbing-Chisholm). In total, forty (40) Minnesotans are listed on active NHL rosters, and many more are expected to play in the remainder of the NHL regular and postseason seasons (Fifty-eight (58) Minnesotans played in NHL games in 2023–24 , which led everyone). states).

Of the forty (40) active players on opening night, thirty-seven (37) played high school hockey in Minnesota, with 26 different high schools represented (21 public and 5 private). There are a total of 97 combined seasons of high school hockey played by the thirty-seven (37) players who played high school hockey. Of these thirty-seven (37) players, eighteen (18) played high school hockey in their senior year.

After Minnesota, Massachusetts has twenty-three (23) players listed, Michigan and New York have twenty-two (22) players listed, and Illinois has eight (8) players listed.

*Data comes from NHL team websites and Elite Prospects*