Week two of the 2025-26 Prospect Tracker brought a full slate of action, including a couple of upsets and plenty of goals. The following reports cover games played through the end of day Monday, October 13th.
Day 2 in the books, Insiders! The LA Kings rookies have two practices in the books and are ready to roll tomorrow afternoon in the first of two games at the 2025 Golden State Rookie Faceoff.
So what’s going on with LA’s first round draft pick Henry Brzustewicz? Why haven’t the Kings signed him to an entry level contract yet? Drafted into the organization this past June, Brzustewicz immediately became the team’s top defensive prospect.
During the 2025 NHL Draft, I had the opportunity to listen in live to the LA Kings draft room during Day 1. In doing so, I was able to hear first hand how the Kings ultimately traded down and wound up selecting Henry Brzustewicz with the 31st overall selection in Round 1.
Last week, we shared video of LA goalie prospect Carter George mic’d up at Development Camp Now it’s time to move out to the blueline, where Kings prospects — and OHL teammates — Jared Woolley and Henry Brzustewicz took their turns with being mic’d up.
“With the 31st pick in the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, the LA Kings proudly select Henry Brzustewicz from the OHL’s London Knights.” That’s not really where this story begins, it’s actually more the culmination of an intense process that started months earlier.
The LA Kings selected defenseman Henry Brzustewicz with the 31st overall pick in the 2025 NHL Entry Draft. Brzustewicz and Jared Wooley sat down with host Jesse Cohen during Development Camp to talk about their friendship and careers playing with the London Knights.
Yesterday, we took a dive into the two defensemen who the Kings selected during the 2025 NHL Draft beyond the first round, Caeden Herrington and Will Sharpe, who joined first-round selection Henry Brzustewicz as blueliners taken by the Kings over the weekend.
We’re three days deep into the Kings 2025 Development Camp, and after three split sessions between the forwards and defensemen and a pair of controlled scrimmages, the organization’s prospects are settling in.
Getting drafted to the NHL is any young hockey player’s dream. So, no matter where Henry Brzustewicz wound up this past weekend, I’m sure he would’ve been quite happy.