Manor Full Schedule for NHL Rookie Faceoff 2025

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Following up on our report from a few months ago, this year’s NHL Rookie Faceoff event will look a little different than years past. Rather than a six-team format, with groups split in two. The Avalanche, Golden Knights, and Mammoth are playing in Colorado. Meanwhile, the Anaheim Ducks will host the Kings and Sharks at Great Park Ice in Irvine (where the Ducks practice).

Rookie Faceoff Schedule​

Friday, September 12
Sharks vs. Ducks at 6pm

Saturday, September 13
Kings vs. Sharks at 1pm

Sunday, September 14
Kings vs. Ducks at 1pm

Ticket information will be made available at a later time. Games are also expected to be available via a free stream.

2025 Prospect Participants​

Prospects in college are ineligible to participate. All other Kings prospects and invitees who participated in the Kings recent Development Camp in TSPC are expected to arrive at Rookie Training Camp around September, 10.

The list of Kings prospects expected to play in the Rookie Faceoff games includes:

Forwards
Kenny Connors – Ontario Reign
Liam Greentree – Windsor Spitfires (OHL)
Aatu Jamsen – Ontario Reign
Kaleb Lawrence – Ontario Reign
Jimmy Lombardi – Flint Firebirds (OHL)
Jared Wright – Ontario Reign
Koehn Ziemmer – Ontario Reign

Defensemen
Angus Booth – Ontario Reign
Henry Brzustewicz – London Knights (OHL)
Jakub Dvorak – Ontario Reign
Kirill Kirsanov – Ontario Reign
Otto Salin – Ontario Reign
Will Sharpe – Kelowna Rockets (WHL)
Jared Woolley – London Knights (OHL)

Goalies
Carter George – Owen Sound Attack (OHL)
Petteri Rimpinen – Kiekko-Espoo (Liiga)

The status of Martin Chromiak and Franky Pinelli is TBD, as they’ve already participated multiple times.

Both the Sharks and Ducks will also assemble teams full of all their top prospects, including Michael Misa, Joshua Ravensbergen, Sam Dickinson, Quentin Musty for the Sharks. Some big names are also expected for the Ducks including Roger McQueen, Beckett Sennecke, and Stian Solberg.

Rookie Faceoff History​

Be sure to check out the article with Anze Kopitar linked below. Not only does LA’s captain talk about coming over to North America for his first rookie event after being drafted, but it also includes rare photos of the only time he wore a Kings jersey not featuring his iconic No. 11 on the back.

For those unfamiliar with the Rookie Faceoff, here’s a brief overview from a previously published Mayor’s Manor article:

Officially re-launched as a six-team event in 2018, the roots of this tournament actually go back more than 20 years ago — at something born in Los Angeles and dubbed the Pacific Division Shootout in 2003. Dustin Brown, Anze Kopitar, Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry, and Joe Pavelski are just some of the players who participated in those early events.

In more recent times, nearly every significant Kings prospect imaginable over the past seven years has suited up for games at the Rookie Faceoff, including: Mikey Anderson, Quinton Byfield, Brandt Clarke, Sean Durzi, Alex Laferriere, Andre Lee, Jordan Spence, Akil Thomas, Alex Turcotte, and Koehn Ziemmer.

[The event] has become a very popular showcase for up-and-coming NHL players. In fact, many of the games in other cities have sold out in advance. And it’s easy to understand why. For all the talk about the World Junior Championships being the best showcase in the world for future NHL players — and it clearly is — the Rookie Faceoff has proven to be a great way for fans to see the next generation without having to travel very far.

After stops in Vegas (2018) and Anaheim (2019), Arizona had to wait an extra year to host it in 2021 due to the pandemic forcing a postponement of what the Coyotes originally had planned for September 2020. There was a further trickle down of changes in the coming years, beginning with what to do with LA, who was initially slotted to host in 2022. They ultimately stepped aside that year after the Sharks called and asked to show off their new 4,000 sq. foot arena that was purpose built for San Jose’s AHL affiliate. The Kings politely agreed to delay hosting until 2023. That too ended up not happening because the big club was tapped to play a pair of preseason games in Australia, which also meant opening training camp Down Under. Vegas jumped in at the last minute and hosted the 2023 Rookie Faceoff for the second time.

MORE LA KINGS NEWS:

Kopitar Reflects on His U.S. Arrival and Some Kings Rookie Faceoff History

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