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Inside Wheeler’s Shocking Summer 2025 NHL Prospect Rankings: Who’s the True Future Star?

Inside Wheeler’s Shocking Summer 2025 NHL Prospect Rankings: Who’s the True Future Star?

With the right development and coaching, he always had clear upside as a top-six/PP1 finisher — you want the puck in his hands. He’s imperfect, though, too.

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VAN

2022

Tier 4

RW

On a Michigan team that didn’t have the high-end skill it had had in recent years, Hage played to above a point per game as an 18-year-old freshman last year and made a lot of plays offensively for himself (out of necessity to a certain degree). Coming up, he was a star minor hockey prospect who would have gone at the very top of the OHL draft had he not chosen to go to the Chicago Steel and commit to the Wolverines. He was then limited to just 13 games (in which he still had 10 points) in his 16-year-old season in the USHL after undergoing shoulder surgery from an injury suffered in an early practice. There are some in USHL and NCAA circles who believe that had he not lost that time, he might have been in the top-10 conversation for the 2024 draft. Though he didn’t play back into that mix in his draft year, he came close, taking off in the second half of his draft year (after the Steel really struggled out of the gate as a team) and looking for a multi-month stretch like debatably the USHL’s best forward before finishing with 35 goals and 79 points in 56 combined regular-season and playoff games.

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