Inside Wheeler’s Shocking Summer 2025 NHL Prospect Rankings: Who’s the True Future Star?
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CHI
2024
Tier 1
RHD
Tier 2
Hagens, after two years as the top player at the NTDP and two record-setting international events at U17 and U18 worlds, entered last season as a front-runner to go No. 1. His draft year was good without being a star-making campaign, though. He played to a point per game as a freshman at BC and was a driver of positive results who often played over 20 minutes for the Eagles. At the World Juniors in Ottawa, he was also the No. 1 center on a gold medal-winning Team USA, leading their forwards in ice time (20:33), and was their fourth-leading scorer with nine points in seven games. I’m still very high on Hagens, but some scouts wanted to see him score more and get to the net more than he did in college. There were a couple of games against bigger, older, heavier college teams where it didn’t come as easily as it has against his peers.
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