Devon Levi

Devon Levi grew up in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, and began his competitive career with the Lac St-Louis Lions in the Quebec minor hockey system, appearing in AAA play as early as the 2014–15 season. After four seasons working through the Lions' program at the QM18AAA level, he moved to the Carleton Place Canadians of the CCHL for 2019–20, posting a 1.47 GAA and .941 save percentage across 37 games with 34 wins and 8 shutouts — numbers that earned him recognition as both the CCHL MVP and Top Goaltender, and the Canadian Junior Hockey League MVP and Top Goalie that season.

Florida selected Levi in the seventh round of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, 212th overall. In 2021, his rights were traded to the Buffalo Sabres.

Between those two professional chapters, Levi wore a Canadian jersey at the 2021 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Playing seven games, he went 6–1 with a 0.75 GAA, a .964 save percentage, and 3 shutouts — a save percentage that surpassed the all-time tournament record previously established by Carey Price in 2007. He was named the Best Goaltender of the tournament and earned a spot on the All-Star Team. Canada won the silver medal. He was also named to Team Canada for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

His college career at Northeastern University ran for two seasons and produced some of the most striking numbers of his pre-professional record. In 2021–22 he went 21–10 with a 1.54 GAA, a .952 save percentage, and 10 shutouts in 32 games. The following season, 2022–23, he posted a 2.24 GAA and .933 save percentage with 6 shutouts in 34 appearances, while also appearing once for Canada at the World Championship.

Levi made his NHL debut with Buffalo in 2022–23, going 5–2 with a 2.94 GAA and .905 save percentage across 7 games at the end of the season — a stretch in which he was reportedly perfect on 10 one-on-one chances ^[1]. The following summer, InGoal Radio brought him in for his first podcast appearance ^[2], the beginning of a relationship that would grow considerably over the years. InGoal Magazine has covered Devon Levi in four podcast appearances and eleven Pro Reads.

His first full professional season, 2023–24, saw Levi split time between Rochester and Buffalo. With the Rochester Americans (AHL) he went 16–6 with a 2.42 GAA and .927 save percentage in 26 regular-season games, adding 2 wins and a .923 save percentage in 5 playoff appearances. At the NHL level he went 10–8 with a 3.1 GAA and .899 save percentage in 23 games for the Sabres. That summer, InGoal's Kevin Woodley sat down with him in Montreal for an extended video session alongside his long-time personal goalie coach Marco Raimondo — a session that became the foundation for an ongoing Pro Reads series now extending to thirteen entries ^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][1]}. Levi also joined Woodley and Raimondo for InGoal Radio Episode 226 ^[13].

Those Pro Reads cover a wide range of game situations drawn from Levi's NHL appearances — breakaways against Matthew Tkachuk and Anthony Duclair, rush chances against Aleksander Barkov and Mika Zibanejad, in-zone sequences involving moving screens, 2-on-1 reads, paddle-down decisions, and the question of when to commit on a one-timer versus hold position. Each piece is available to InGoal subscribers and lets Levi explain in his own words how he processes each situation.

A sample of that voice comes through in Pro Read 9, where he described reading a delayed trailer on a rush: "This is actually a pretty tough play because it's a perfect line… Zibanejad has access, it looks like it is going right to him and I play it as if he was one timing this." ^[7] In Pro Read 10, discussing the fine line between anticipation and over-analysis, he said: "There are times where you could over-analyse guys too… I have expectations going into the game and they end up not unfolding how I premediated them and you can get in trouble like that also." ^[8]

In 2024–25, Levi appeared in 9 NHL games for Buffalo, going 2–7 with a 4.12 GAA and .872 save percentage. His AHL work with Rochester told a different story: 25 wins in 42 regular-season games with a 2.20 GAA, a .919 save percentage, and 7 shutouts — followed by a .910 save percentage and 2 shutouts in 8 playoff games (5–3). That January, he was named to the AHL All-Star Game ^[5]. By late April 2025, a Pro Read noted he had posted a 35-save shutout in the AHL playoffs, bringing his two-game postseason save percentage at that point to .968 ^[3].

Woodley caught up with Levi in Kelowna, BC, in the summer of 2024 for a second in-person session that produced fresh on- and off-ice content, including additional Pro Reads material and a video showing how Levi tapes his CCM XF Pro stick. That conversation also became InGoal Radio Episode 265 ^[14], recorded in a dressing room after an ice session in West Kelowna. In that episode Levi discussed managing the physical and mental demands of a first full professional season — a schedule he described as significantly longer than anything he had experienced before — and talked about the role journaling, intentional practice focus, and finding outside interests played in maintaining his performance. He also mentioned painting as a hobby he took up that season. "I ended up taking up painting," he said. "It's super meditative honestly, it's very enjoyable." ^[14] He spoke about NHL Sense Arena VR as a training tool he incorporated to supplement on-ice work and manage his workload across the season.

In 2025–26, Levi did not appear in the NHL. He played 52 games for Rochester in the AHL regular season, posting a 2.83 GAA and .904 save percentage with 3 shutouts (23–20), then added 1 shutout and a .919 save percentage in 3 playoff appearances.

Levi is now with the Edmonton Oilers. In 2026–27, the NHL data shows 4 games played with 4 wins, a 2.76 GAA, and a .903 save percentage. His NHL career across 42 games stands at 20 wins, 17 losses, 2 overtime losses, a 3.30 GAA, and a .893 save percentage.