2025 NHL Scouting Combine Presented by Fanatics: Fitness Testing Results

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Horcoff sets new NHL Scouting Combine record for horizontal jump

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The 2025 NHL Scouting Combine presented by Fanatics, which included 90 draft-eligible players from North America and Europe, concluded Saturday with fitness testing in Buffalo. The top 25 results from each test are available in the attached document.

The 2025 Upper Deck NHL Draft will be held at L.A. Live’s Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with Round 1 on June 27 at 7 p.m. ET (ESPN, ESPN+, Sportsnet, TVA Sports), followed by rounds two through seven on June 28 at 12 p.m. ET (NHL Network, ESPN+, Sportsnet, SN1). 

Click here for all-time Combine fitness testing results entering 2025 (this year’s results to be added in the coming days). William Horcoff of the University of Michigan, the son of former NHL player Shawn Horcoff, set a new record for the horizontal jump (124.8 inches), the second consecutive year a new benchmark was set in that test after Rangers first-round pick E.J. Emery did so in 2024 (123.0).

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