Inside Wheeler’s Shocking Summer 2025 NHL Prospect Rankings: Who’s the True Future Star?
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MIN
2022
Tier 4
C
Dvorsky’s June birthday made him one of the younger players in the 2023 draft, but he has already accomplished a lot at an early age. It feels like he’s older than he is because of how many international events he has played in and how much pro experience he has. He led a Slovak Hlinka Gretzky Cup team that featured Juraj Slafkovský in scoring as an underager; produced well above a point per game in Sweden’s J20 level four years ago; produced at a strong age-adjusted clip in his draft year in the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan (while clicking at two points per game in stints back down at J20 when the schedule allowed); drove the bus on a Slovak team that exceeded expectations in Switzerland at the 2023 U18 worlds; and has played in five World Juniors which concluded with a strong showing as their captain in Ottawa in December. And though he didn’t play much in the SHL to start his post-draft season two years ago and had to move to the OHL, he was a force on Sudbury’s unstoppable top line and would have easily broken 50 goals and 100 points had he started the year there. He also had more success at the pro level in the AHL in 2024-25 than he did the prior year in the SHL, finishing third on Springfield in scoring with 47 points in 64 combined regular-season and playoff games as a 19-year-old rookie (good for second in U20 AHL scoring).
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