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

Lakovic is a 6-foot-4 winger who can really fly and blends good handles and scoring touch into his movements nicely. He protects pucks well, can get off the wall and has taken strides to keep his head up on the puck and survey/use his linemates better and better. He’s still got room to improve his scanning, off-puck play and decision-making, and his physicality needs to be more consistent, but his ability both in transition and protecting pucks in the offensive zone can really pop, and he has clear top-nine projectability with good coaching. When he’s on pucks and up and under sticks and winning inside body positioning, he can be really noticeable in a game with his skating, strength, power and skill. He has quick hands and can take D one-on-one as well. Lakovic was a standout of one of the CHL-USA Prospects Challenge games and was on a 13-game point streak when he went down with a fractured collarbone that sidelined him from the end of December to the middle of February (he heated back up after returning with Moose Jaw team that has entered a full rebuild post-deadline, too). He also reportedly really impressed at Caps development camp.

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