The 2024 version of Second City Hockey’s Top 25 Under 25 rankings continues with our Top 10, which will contain a lengthier breakdown of each individual who made it into that group. The voters for this year’s installment consisted five of the SCH writers, who submitted individual ballots.
Artyom Levshunov
- Position: Defense
- Birth date: October 28, 2005 (18)
- Acquired via: First-round pick (2nd overall) in 2024 NHL Draft
- 2023-24 team: Michigan State Spartans (NCAA)
- 2023-24 stats: 35 points (9 G, 26 A) in 38 regular-season games, one assist in three playoff games
- Size: 6-foot-2, 209 pounds
- Contract: Three years, $950,000 AAV (entry-level contract)
- Rankings: 2 (LBR, Dave, Zack, Eric), 3 (Shea)
- Last T25U25 ranking: N/A
If you’re looking for another post examining Levshunov’s skill set and talking about his strengths and weaknesses, I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve now written about Arty twice myself:
And Zack broke him down so thoroughly that Levshunov himself probably learned at least 10 new tendencies in his game that even he hadn’t realized he was doing yet: