Prospects · 2026–27

Adam Levac

#— · Center · shoots R · 6′0″, 176 lb · age 18 · Ottawa, CAN

Status Prospect rookie-eligible · draft+0 · 0 NHL games so far pipeline rank 18 · expected peak 10
Drafted2026108th overall · round 4 · DET
Age18born Jun 27, 2008
This season · OHL8games · Peterborough Petes
Goals · assists · points3–5–8−5 · 7 pim

Pipeline Rankings

18th of 34 Red Wings prospects, shown with the two ranked above him and the two below.

RankPlayerPosLeagueLeague strengthGPGAPSince Oct 6
16 Ondřej Becher C/W AHL 0.389 5 0 1 1 –
17 Beckham Edwards C NCAA 0.194 2 0 1 1 –
18 Adam Levac C OHL 0.144 8 3 5 8 –
19 Michal Svrcek LW/RW OHL 0.144 9 1 2 3 –
20 Dylan James LW AHL 0.389 5 1 2 3 –

This season's line in each player's main league (the one with the most games). League strength is the Network NHLe coefficient from hockeystats.com. The ranking runs on last season's numbers until a player's current line reaches 10 games, then on this season's. Since Oct 6 counts the places moved from the start-of-season ranking.

Where he projects

Four reads, every one measured against forwards only, built on his 2025–26 season in the OHL.

League strength0.144OHL coefficient · a point there is worth 14% of an NHL point
Production, age-relative84thpercentile among OHL forwards born 2008, 2025–26 (80 of them) · NHLe 8.7 per 82
Ceilingreplacement levelthe upside case, not the forecast: 22% of 50 comparable paths reached replacement level or better; the 75th percentile lands at the 0th percentile of NHL forwards · expected peak 10 (cohort 7, draft slot weighted 0.5) · 22% became NHL regulars
Trajectory+6.6NHLe per 82: 2.1 in the OHL, 2024–25 to 8.7 in the OHL, 2025–26
Closest paths at age 17DraftLeague thenNHLe / 82NHL outcomeNHL GP
André Petersson2008 · 109J20 SuperElit8.8did not stick1
Adam Ruzicka2017 · 109OHL8.8below average · 47th117
Bill Arnold2010 · 108NTDP8.4did not stick1
Martin Pospisil2018 · 105USHL8.9below average · 37th169
Mark MacMillan2010 · 113BCHL8.9did not stick0
Tobias Rieder2011 · 114OHL8.9above average · 52nd478
Jachym Kondelik2018 · 111USHL9.0did not stick0
Brad Morrison2015 · 113WHL8.4did not stick0

Draft pedigree. Picks 65-120 at the position, 371 of them since 2008: 29% became NHL regulars, 7% reached top-line production, expected peak 13. It carries weight 0.5 this season (the draft year); pedigree counts most in the draft year and nothing from draft+2.

This season so far. 85th percentile among OHL forwards born 2008 after 8 games (84 of them).

Games behind the numbers. 60 in 2025–26, 80 same-year forwards in the table, 50 comparable paths from a pool of 1374.

League strength is the Network NHLe points coefficient from hockeystats.com (Patrick Bacon). Production is points per game among skaters of the same position and the same age in the same league and season (EliteProspects tables). Ceiling: the nearest 50 drafted skaters of the 2008–2019 classes at the same position and age, matched on NHLe and draft slot, and where each one's best NHL season landed as a points-per-game percentile among regulars at the position; a player who never had a half-season in the NHL counts as zero. Tiers follow the W-Value on the NHL pages: elite 88+, top-line 73+, above average 50+, below average 27+. NHL usage, for a skater with three or more NHL games this season: the nearest 50 rookie NHL seasons (5+ games, 2008–2019 classes, through 2022–23) at his position within a year of his age, matched on ice time per game and, at half weight, on points per game pulled toward the group average while his sample is small; their mean peak blends into the expected peak at weight games ÷ (games + 20). NHL games are never matched against minor-league seasons.

Where he played

Every line since his draft year, 2026, newest first. Counting stats only: no public expected-goals model covers the leagues below the NHL, so nothing here is presented as comparable across them.

SeasonLeagueTeamGPGAP+/−PIM
2026–27OHLPeterborough Petes8358−57

A W-Value arrives once he has an NHL season large enough to rate; until then he is listed with the prospects.