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Which current NHL players are destined for the Hockey Hall of Fame?
Edmonton Oilers Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid
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Dylan Nazareth
Nov 5, 2025, 19:00 ESTUpdated: Nov 5, 2025, 14:42 EST
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Is it ever too early in a player’s career to start thinking about how they’ll be immortalized in the hockey history books? With the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025 set to be inducted on Monday night in Toronto, it brings up inevitable questions of which active players may eventually have their own ceremony.
With that in mind, Daily Faceoff’s Paul Pidutti took the opportunity on Wednesday to sort through the current crop of potential future candidates, to find who has the best chance of landing in the Hall of Fame down the road. Of course, he’s doing it with his famous Pidutti Point Share (PPS) system, which balances multiple factors to determine a player’s “Hall-worthiness” (see the full methodology here).
To no one’s surprise, those metrics place two Edmonton Oilers squarely on the radar of the Hall of Fame: superstar forwards Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
Considered to be perhaps the best hockey player in the world right now, McDavid is listed in the “Inner Circle” category of players, the top tier for those all but certain to land among the greats of the sport one day.
On McDavid, Pidutti writes:
Two years ago, McDavid became the 21st Inner Circle Hall of Fame forward in PPS. He was only 26 years old and had played just 645 games. Does McDavid have a sixth scoring title in him to join Lemieux and Gordie Howe? Will an elusive Stanley Cup arrive? McDavid exceeded Crosby’s first decade from a production perspective. But it’s the second decade that will determine whether McDavid catches him in PPS.
Listed alongside McDavid in the Inner Circle category are Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, and Evgeni Malkin. Not bad company.
Meanwhile, Draisaitl lands one tier below on Pidutti’s list of players he dubs “Qualified,” like Nikita Kucherov, Patrick Kane, and Nathan MacKinnon. On the German forward, he writes:
In March 2024, I penned this celebratory piece on Draisaitl’s Hall case as he crossed the unofficial 700-game mark for induction. Since then, he added a Rocket Richard Trophy, an MVP runner-up finish, and a preposterous 64 points in 47 playoff games.
Given those monstrous achievements, it’s not hard to see why Draisaitl is a solid candidate to land in the Hall of Fame in the not-too-distant future. Of course, a Stanley Cup and maybe even some Olympic hardware wouldn’t hurt.

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