The Top 20 countdown of our 2025 Cult of Hockey Prospect Series resumes. Players only fall off the list once they: Article content

-Make the NHL

-Get dealt to a different organization

-Age out, or…

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2025 Edmonton Oilers Top Prospect Rankings

#12 – Viljami Marjala

(Voters: David Staples, Kurt Leavins, Jim Matheson, Ira Cooper).

The left-handed Left Winger (although he also plays Center) was selected #159 overall in Round Five of the 2021 NHL Draft by Buffalo. But after two seasons spent in the QMJHL and another few in the Finish pro league, the Sabres chose not to sign him. Hmmm…

Suddenly a Restricted Free Agent, Marjala was picked up by the Edmonton Oilers in June and promptly inked a two-year ELC at a cap hit of $872,500,

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