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

A standout October 2006 with size and some real skill, McQueen is a big, right-shot center with talent on the puck and skating that has come a long way over the last couple of years to fall into place more naturally. The big question with McQueen has been about his health. He impressed for Canada at U17s, Hlinka and U18s — where, after a standout first game, he got injured in the second game of the tournament — and has had stretches of dominant play for Brandon in the WHL, including early on last season after a four-goal game to kick-start his draft year. He missed 15 games with a back injury midway through two seasons ago, though, and after returning for the playoffs and U18s and getting off to that hot start last season while still trying to manage it, it flared up enough that he and his team felt it was important for him to step away from his draft year and get it right. (He initially said the injury was a bulging disc but recently said it was actually a pars fracture, or a spondylolysis — a stress fracture of the spine.) After missing almost his entire draft season, he returned to play in early March and looked like he was getting back into the swing of things early before getting closer to form down the stretch and finishing with 20 points in 17 games on the year. But he wasn’t himself in Brandon’s first-round playoff series against Lethbridge and missed the final two games of it again.

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