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

I’ve been a big fan of Yurov’s game and was really high on him in his draft year (when the Wild took him No. 24, he was No. 12 on my list). I had concerns for a while there about how Magnitogorsk had handled his development and the limited minutes they gave him at the KHL level even when it looked like he was ready for more, but he forced their hand with an excellent camp and start to the season two years ago and put together one of the best age-adjusted seasons in KHL history by the end of the 2023-24 campaign. Not only was he a good team’s leading scorer, but he finished the season with the KHL’s all-time under-21 scoring record, breaking Vladimir Tarasenko’s single-season mark and passing Kirill Kaprizov and Evgeny Kuznetsov along the way. He wasn’t as productive last season, but he has been a real driver of positive results in the KHL over the last couple of years and looks like he’s going to be a second-line player in the NHL to me.

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