2025 CHL Import Draft Hub
The 2025 CHL Import Draft is set to take place Wednesday at 11:00am where the Knights will make three selections.
Impact Finnish forwards Kasper Halttunen and Jesse Nurmi will move onto pro hockey following impact performances that helped the team to the franchise’s third Memorial Cup championship. Other key import selections the club has made include Adam Boqvist, Olli Juolevi, Sergei Kostitsyn.
The CHL Import Draft is an annual event in which every club in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) can draft players from outside of North America. As part of a new policy adopted for the 2025-26 season, CHL clubs will now be permitted to carry up to three import players on their rosters. In accordance with this rule change, the CHL Import Draft will expand to three rounds. Under the revised rules, a club with no current import players may select up to three players, a club with one import may select two, while a club with two imports may select one. Clubs with three import players will be ineligible to participate.
The 2025 CHL Import Draft will take place online, with the order of selection rotating between the clubs of each of the CHL Member Leagues (WHL, OHL, & QMJHL). Those interested in following the draft tomorrow as each draft pick comes in can do so at chl.ca/draft/chl/2025/.
Quick Facts
- This year’s 2025 CHL Import Draft will mark the 34th edition of this event.
- This year’s draft will expand to three rounds for the first time in the event’s 33-year history.
- Over the last four years, a total of 35 players who came through the CHL Import Draft later heard their name called at an NHL Draft, including Pavel Mintyukov (Saginaw Spirit, OHL / Anaheim Ducks), Samuel Honzek (Vancouver Giants, WHL / Calgary Flames), and Eriks Mateiko (Saint John Sea Dogs, QMJHL / Washington Capitals)
- In total, 82 players were drafted during the 2024 CHL Import, including:
- A record 15 players from Finland were selected, the most ever in a single CHL Import Draft since the event began in 1992.
- Two players from Kazakhstan were drafted, setting a new high for the country in CHL Import Draft history.
- One player from France was selected, marking the first time French players have been chosen in back-to-back CHL Import Drafts.
- 18 players chosen in the 2024 NHL Draft were later selected in the 2024 CHL Import Draft, with 13 of them suiting up in the CHL during the 2024–25 season.
DRAFT HUB
Linus Funck
2007 | Defenceman | Lulea, Sweden | 6’3 · 183 lbs
Funck recorded 28 points in 48 games with Lulea HF J20 in 2024. The 2007 born right handed defenceman was selected 118th overall by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2025 NHL Draft.
Maksim Sokolovskii
2008 | Defenceman | Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan | 6’8 · 192 lbs
The 6’8 defenceman recorded 34 goals, 50 assists for 84 points in 65 games with Atlantic Coast Academy in 2024. Committed to the University of Maine.
Marcus Nordmark
2008 | Forward | Stockholm, Sweden | 6’1 · 183 lbs
Nordmark recorded 18 points in 17 games with Djurgardens IF J20 in 2024. He’ll be draft eligible next season and is an early first round NHL draft pick candidate.
