Prospect Info: 2024 2nd Overall - Artyom Levshunov

[Chelios]

Imagine losing out on Kane lol, but buddy try again he’s wiping the floor with Kucherov’s stats at his age in the KHL, so ceiling can possibly be 144 point season plus if that continues. That’s the craziness of passing on him. We have such a smart GM, we should all feel warm and fuzzy inside, so smart and amazing, the one before him was even smarter, we are so lucky.

It wasn't only our GM that passed on him. In fact, our GM tried to move back up and select him but Columbus decided against the deal... to select another player not named Demidov.

Demidov may be great. Maybe we should have taken him. The reality is we won't know that for a while yet and there is no sense dwelling on that at this stage.

As far as Lev goes, his first few games in the AHL, which I watched, were impressive and certainly did nothing to have me questioning why he was selected when he was.