Inside Wheeler’s Shocking Summer 2025 NHL Prospect Rankings: Who’s the True Future Star?
His game has some real identity and form to it at an early age as well.
One of the most competitive prospects in the sport, Solberg plays really hard and firm on both sides of the puck, with a mean, strong, physical presence that has seen him make life hard on opposing players whenever he has played against his peers internationally and even against men in Norway and Sweden. He’s really physical in man-to-man coverage, sometimes too much so. It’s tough to take him one-on-one, and then he can skate the other way, though he can also be a little too eager on that front. His reads and decision-making need some tightening at times, as he can be sloppy/turnover-prone, but his game has grown more mature as time has gone on, leaving me less concerned about his brain. He’s also a strong skater and advanced athlete with an athletic 6-foot-2 build that is already over 200 pounds and is really strong/sturdy. Players with his makeup — a hard-nosed, highly engaged defenseman with good size/athletic tools who’s shown enough offense — are always going to be valuable. His style really works on North American ice/in the North American game, too. I see a potential second-pair ceiling/third-pair floor as a hard-to-play against D with some secondary offense that gives the Ducks’ future blue line something different from Olen Zellweger and Pavel Mintyukov.
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