With the seventh pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, the Bruins found great value with Boston College forward James Hagens.

After earning All-Rookie status in Hockey East as a freshman at Boston College, the Bruins picked Hagens with the No. 7 overall pick in Friday’s NHL Draft. Barring an injury, he’s likely to spend at most one more year in Chestnut Hill, but if he and the Bruins, both agreed he was ready, he could turn pro now.

The Bruins selected Hagens, who grew up an Islanders fan in Hauppauge and attends Boston College, with the seventh overall pick in the NHL Draft on Friday night at the Peacock Theater. He matches Mike Komisarek, who was selected seventh overall by the Canadiens in 2001, as the highest-ever pick from Long Island.