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

One of the more impressive 2005s in the OHL for a couple of seasons, Barlow scored 35 goals in 66 combined regular-season and playoff games as a rookie in the OHL, was named captain of the Attack for his draft year, scored 49 goals in 63 combined games that season (rare goal scoring for a player his age, and a rare honor for a player his age) and then played to a 51-goal, 68-game pace in the OHL two seasons ago after starting slow and missing time with a back injury (after a disappointing under-18 worlds while also dealing with a nagging injury). He also looked good from what I saw of him in his first three AHL games with the Moose in spring 2024. He got off to a very slow start for a 19-year-old first-rounder last year after a trade from Owen Sound to the contending Generals, taking him out of the running for the World Junior team, but his play picked up after a coaching change and he had a really strong playoffs, registering 33 points in 21 games for the Gens on a line that looked dominant when I went to see them play.

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