I’ll chime in again.
I said it above and I’ll say it again.
He’s always always always been good and known in Quebec, he literally would have been the first of one or the first goalies picked in the 2016 Q draft was it, god my memory is almost full. It’s Lafs draft... uhm 2017 Q draft. He told the league he was NOT (edit I forgot the not) showing up and Blainville took his him but he never wavered, and they tried hard.
Its not uncommon for a top Q prospect to play 2 years midget and then move on, but Levi killed his draft stock when he chose to play a 3rd year Midget AAA.
He was dominant for 3 years in the league but at a point you need to move on, and be challenged.
he had his sights on Havard so I do understand but I’m not sure what happened there, he’s also always been smart.
At 17 his midget team was stacked, I mean man they were good we got torched. That year he put on probably the best goalie performance ever seen in Quebec, I’m not kidding either he beat the best team the Midget league has ever seen, they went 41-1 and shattered records. It was incredible, I’m not sure how they were that dominant and they might only produce 1 nhler.
Anyways, this kid... over 7 games faces like 500 shots or close, you can look this up by the way. He literally faced 50 shots 7 games in a row, had some double ot in there, you can imagine there was a ton of grade A chances, and they win the series in 7.
oh and 50 shots was the minimum btw.. there were 60 save outings in that series....
they were gassed in the finals and Felix Potvin’s teams are always good so they lost but man it was insane. That extra year buried him, then he goes to a stacked CP Canadians teams and kills it and they were insane and likely would have won the Nationals. He also lost vs Askarov at the World Junior A so this buries him, HC knows him but he’s a guy who played on good teams at levels that aren’t monitored. You add his size and well he’s a product of his teams right ? Lol so so so so wrong.
He’s a lot cleaner in the crease and much better with rebounds now, positioning has improved aswell, put it all together and now it looks like NHL, personally if he was as tall as Spencer Knight I think the debates would get f***ing heated. Also Devon’s got a baby face I don’t see why he doesn’t find an extra inch or 2.
Incredible rise forsure, but one team did its homework, there were others but they weren’t so serious from I know. His goalie coach is great too, they do good work. He has the tools, he will start someday in the NHL, might be a 25 guy, but he will be a guy.
At 15 he could steal and win games, at 19 he can dominate them and you’ll see it. He’s clutch when called.
also Craig Button got this wrong, all 3 of the goals that have beat Levi have been off his own D’s sticks, Levi had all 3 shots that he would have smothered.
