Inside Wheeler’s Shocking Summer 2025 NHL Prospect Rankings: Who’s the True Future Star?
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Schaefer, who was the No. 1 pick in the 2023 OHL draft and became the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft despite missing much of his draft year with mono to start it and then a broken collarbone suffered in the second game of the World Juniors (he didn’t get back skating until March 13). He regularly logged mid-20s minutes for Erie as a rookie as a 16-year-old and they looked like a completely different team with him playing closer to 30 as a 17-year-old. He led Canada White to gold at world under-17s as captain and a big-minute player, pushing 30 per game when it mattered there. He was impactful as an underager at U18 worlds in Finland. He was outstanding at Hlinka as Canada’s No. 1 defenseman and captain for a second time. In the 17 OHL games he did play between mono and the injury at the World Juniors, he was phenomenal for the Otters, making a number of highlight-reel, coast-to-coast plays. He was the biggest standout at the two-game CHL-USA Prospects Challenge. He was a standout at the red-white scrimmages and his U Sports game in selection camp for the World Juniors, and when the puck dropped on the actual tournament, I thought he looked like Canada’s top D through three and a half periods before he got hurt. You get the point. Even with the lost time, the performances have piled up.
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