Inside Wheeler’s Shocking Summer 2025 NHL Prospect Rankings: Who’s the True Future Star?
In junior, Poitras played a tenacious skill game that put him on the puck and endeared him to his coaches and scouts. He’s a crafty playmaker who can play with the puck on his stick, has patience in control (sometimes too much so, which results in overhanding it or not playing quickly enough) and sees the ice well. He does a good job supporting play and then pushing tempo back in the other direction. His tools get mostly Bs across the board, though, and that has made some wonder if he will be just a player. Everyone likes the hardworking, detail-oriented, decently skilled types who can work to get pucks and then make plays. But when that isn’t his identity all the time and he doesn’t have size or dynamic skating to fall back on, questions crop up about his ultimate upside and role in a lineup. I would like to see him get to the middle of the ice and shoot it a little more, because he has a nifty release, too. There’s still reason to believe he becomes a middle-six/PP2 forward who can produce 40-50 points. He doesn’t have dynamic quality, but he’s a heady, intelligent player who still projects as a good, longtime NHLer. He has never inspired me, though.
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