This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Devon Levi
Buffalo Sabres Goaltender
Two hundred and twelfth overall, an enormous college reputation, and an .8994 in twenty-three games.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | BUF | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 2.94 | 0 | 222 | .905 |
| 2023-24 | BUF | 23 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 67 | 3.10 | 0 | 666 | .899 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 30 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 88 | 3.06 | 0 | 888 | .901 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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.
Last Season
10-8-2 with an .8994, a 3.10 average and no shutouts in 23 games at 22, facing 666 shots.
It is the second partial season of his career and it leaves him at a career .9009 across 30 games. The club’s goaltending was 6th in the league and none of that was his.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 192, and he is small for the modern position, which means the technique has to be exact and mostly is.
He plays aggressively, meeting the shooter at the top of the crease rather than waiting in it — the only way a goaltender that size takes net away — and it costs him on the second play, where a larger man simply stays big.
The rebound control is the weakness and it is the thing standing between him and a job. The puck-handling is genuinely good: he leaves the crease to retrieve and starts the breakout himself.
The Mental Game
He arrived with as large a college reputation as any goaltender of his draft class and has an .9009 across thirty NHL games.
Twenty-three games behind a defence ranked 25th at suppressing chances is a hard place to be judged, and the honest reading is that nobody yet knows.
The Intangibles
Two hundred and twelfth overall in 2020 — a seventh-round pick, taken by Florida and traded here — out of Northeastern, and 30 NHL games at 22.
A seventh-round goaltender reaching thirty NHL games at 22 is already an outcome almost nobody in that position gets. He is now behind a 25-year-old who has just been given the crease, and the next two seasons decide whether the college reputation meant anything.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“**He plays aggressively, meeting the shooter at the top of the crease rather than waiting in it** — the only way a goaltender that size takes net away — and it costs him on the second play, where a larger man simply stays big.”
“**The rebound control is the weakness** and it is the thing standing between him and a job.”
“**The puck-handling is genuinely good**: he leaves the crease to retrieve and starts the breakout himself.”