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

Chernyshov is a November 2005 who has progressed in line with his older age. He established himself as a point-per-game MHL player and scored his first KHL goal (at 16 years and 352 days, he was actually the 11th-youngest player to ever play in a KHL game) three seasons ago and bounced between the MHL and KHL in his draft year, showing mostly well in limited usage with Dynamo Moscow’s pro team and registering 28 points in 22 games when he played with his peers. At the junior level, I felt he created more looks than his production suggested in the first half of the season. Then, in the second half, the points really started to fall and his production elevated back to where it belonged to reaffirm his first-round merits for me (he finished No. 23 on my board and the Sharks then selected him with the first pick of the second round at No. 33 after he was unable to showcase himself at Gold Star’s pre-draft camp due to, of all reasons, a severe sunburn he got in Florida). After undergoing shoulder surgery in August, he then missed the first half of his post-draft season but before returning and lighting it up with the Spirit in the OHL and registering 21 goals and 61 points in 28 combined regular-season and playoff games (he also had two points in three AHL games at the end of the year), looking more like a top-20 talent than a top-40 one.

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