2025 NHL Draft prospect Caleb Desnoyers is a proven winner

Caleb Desnoyers is a top prospect for the 2025 NHL Draft, and his whole career has been nothing but winning at the grandest stages.

Desnoyers recently helped the Moncton Wildcats of the QMJHL capture the Gilles-Courteau Trophy as league champs and now looks to help guide the Wildcats to a Memorial Cup title.

Today on Daily Faceoff Live, Steven Ellis talked about Desnoyers and his career.

Colby Cohen: Let me ask you about Caleb Desnoyers because he’s really everywhere right now. He took a huge step in the QMJHL playoffs. It seems like he’s moving up everybody’s ranking boards, and I’ll say it, you were talking about this guy months and months and months ago before anybody else was propping him up the way he has. So, what are we thinking about Caleb come draft time?

Steven Ellis: Yeah, so he was No. 5 on my last draft board, and I got a new draft board coming next week, so we’ll see kind of where I put him from there, but this is a guy that is a proven winner. He’s one at the U-17 World Championship, the U-18 World Championship. He won the Hlinka Gretzky Cup, and in a lot of those cases, he was on a team like Canada that probably should have won.

Steven Ellis: He was a key part of every single one of those groups. Now, you look at what he did in Moncton this year; they won the championship, and he was a key part of that, too. Honestly, though, he was a bit quiet at the end of that series against Rimouski; he didn’t have any points in the last three games, but he was still so good in so many different areas. He’s a 6-foot-2 forward. He’s not like massive, he’s not bulky, but he knows how to use his strength. He’s very smart. He’s a good two-way player, and he is one of the best centers in this draft.

Steven Ellis: We know teams like guys who’ve been in winning situations and know how to perform in those big moments, and he has proven that time after time, so, yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes even number three or number four.