NHL Draft is rapidly approaching. The defending champions, the Florida Panthers, have just over a week to recuperate before beginning next season's first piece of business. This year's draft is set to be an exciting one due to the question marks lurking throughout the first round.

On Friday's episode of The Athletic Hockey Show, the Prospect Series crew did a live mock draft of next week's first 32 picks.

Here we go. This is the first curveball of the 2025 NHL Mock Draft, and it's a doozy. The Utah Mammoth are looking to make a statement early in their existence. While a lot of this will happen in NHL Free Agency, the NHL Draft provides a platform for this, as well. With this in mind, they take Brady Martin.