Prospects · 2026–27

Brent Solomon

#— · Right wing · shoots R · 6′0″, 173 lb · age 19 · Robbinsdale, USA

Status Prospect rookie-eligible · draft+1 · 0 NHL games so far pipeline rank 14 · expected peak 14
Drafted2025109th overall · round 4 · DET
Age19born Jan 2, 2007
This season · NCAA3games · Univ. of Wisconsin
Goals · assists · points1–0–1+1 · 15 pim

Pipeline Rankings

14th of 34 Red Wings prospects, shown with the two ranked above him and the two below.

RankPlayerPosLeagueLeague strengthGPGAPSince Oct 6
12 Noah Dower-Nilsson C/W AHL 0.389 5 0 2 2 –
13 Larry Keenan D NCAA 0.194 4 1 0 1 –
14 Brent Solomon RW NCAA 0.194 3 1 0 1 –
15 Rudy Guimond G QMJHL · 2025–26 0.113 — — –
16 Ondřej Becher C/W AHL 0.389 5 0 1 1 –

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. A league in grey with 2025–26 beside it means no games yet this season.

Where he projects

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

League strength0.143USHL coefficient · a point there is worth 14% of an NHL point
Production, age-relative91stpercentile among USHL forwards born 2007, 2025–26 (78 of them) · NHLe 11.5 per 82
Ceilingbelow averagethe upside case, not the forecast: 28% of 50 comparable paths reached below average or better; the 75th percentile lands at the 30th percentile of NHL forwards · expected peak 14 (cohort 14, draft slot weighted 0.5) · 34% became NHL regulars
Trajectory+7.0NHLe per 82: 4.5 in the USHS-MN, 2024–25 to 11.5 in the USHL, 2025–26
Closest paths at age 18DraftLeague thenNHLe / 82NHL outcomeNHL GP
André Petersson2008 · 109J20 SuperElit11.3did not stick1
Tyler Shattock2009 · 108WHL11.7did not stick0
Jesse Gabrielle2015 · 105WHL11.6did not stick0
Henrik Björklund2009 · 111HockeyAllsvenskan11.2did not stick0
Garrett Wilson2009 · 107OHL11.2replacement level · 5th87
Michael Spacek2015 · 108WHL11.2did not stick0
Glenn Gawdin2015 · 116WHL11.6did not stick13
Tom Kühnhackl2010 · 110OHL12.0below average · 39th232

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. 27th percentile among NCAA forwards born 2007 after 3 games (15 of them).

Games behind the numbers. 54 in 2025–26, 78 same-year forwards in the table, 50 comparable paths from a pool of 1362.

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, 2025, 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
2026–27NCAAUniv. of Wisconsin3101+115
2025–26USHLSioux Falls Stampede54242953+814

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