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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Devon Levi

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Devon Levi

Edmonton Oilers Goaltender #27

A small, brilliant, deeply unconventional goaltender whose college numbers have never once translated.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2022-23BUF7520212.940222.905
2023-24BUF231082673.100666.899
2024-25BUF9270334.120258.872
2026-27 so far——————————
Career—39171721213.2901146.894

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

2024-25

9 games, a .872 save percentage, a 4.12 goals-against average. Across 39 career NHL games he is at .894, and the trend line inside that is going the wrong way. He did not appear in the NHL last season.

The Physical Game

6 feet even, which in a league of 6-4 goaltenders is genuinely small, and he plays a style built entirely on tracking rather than blocking. He reads releases early, catches pucks he has no business catching, and his glove is legitimately excellent.

The cost of that style is that when he is beaten, he is beaten cleanly — there is less of him to hit by accident. He plays deeper than a goaltender his size can afford to, which is the single most common technical note on him, and shots from distance that a bigger goaltender absorbs go past him.

He is quick and flexible and the athleticism is not in question.

The Mental Game

He was a phenomenon at Northeastern, put up numbers nobody had seen in years, and has spent 3 professional seasons discovering that NHL shooters do not miss. He has handled that publicly with more grace than most 24-year-olds would.

The Intangibles

The gap between what he was in college and what he has been as a professional is now wide enough that it is the central fact about him. Goaltenders develop late and strangely, and it is far too early to write him off; it is also no longer early enough to call the NHL results a small sample.

3rd on the depth chart, with everything still to prove.

The numbers underneath

most goalies sets up here goal line top of the crease

Deep for a goaltender who cannot afford to be. Looking down at the crease, net at the top — he sets up deeper than most.

At six feet even, playing this far back leaves shooters more net than a bigger goaltender would give up from the same spot. It is the most common technical note on him.

60 55 15 50 30 20 55 45 35 BLKMIDGLV HML

A small goaltender who reads releases beautifully and gets beaten cleanly when he reads one wrong. Higher number, more dangerous. Seen from the shooter’s side, so the glove is on the right.

high glove — The glove is genuinely elite. Shooters stop going here.

high middle — Six feet even. What a bigger goaltender absorbs by accident goes over him.

low blocker — Plays deeper than his size can afford, so shots from distance find room.