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

Levshunov is a stud D prospect who developed rapidly over his first two seasons in North America pre-draft and then averaged more than 20 minutes per game in the AHL as a teenage rookie (in a season that came with some highs and lows as he learned the pro game in real time). He finished second on the Big Ten-champion Spartans in scoring (35 points in 38 games) and first in goal differential (plus-27) as a freshman defenseman in the NCAA in his draft year. He had a stellar rookie season in the USHL before that, registering 43 points in 65 combined regular-season and playoff games with Green Bay to fast-track his way into college hockey. It’s not easy to play big minutes to excellent two-way results or produce at a near point-per-game rate as a teenage D in college hockey, let alone one with a language barrier in a new culture who just two seasons ago had only ever played in Belarus. While I thought he should go back to college for one more year and his introduction to the AHL was a bit of a learning curve after starting the year injured, Levshunov played big minutes in Rockford, played on the power play and the penalty kill, his shot generation was strong and he was involved in a lot of action — for better or worse — at both the AHL and NHL levels with his chicken-with-his-head-cut-off see-and-react game.

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