Devon Levi

Devon Levi was born on December 27, 2001, in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, and spent his formative hockey years with the Lac St-Louis Lions organization, working through the Quebec minor AAA ranks before graduating to the QM18AAA level. He played four seasons with the Lions, and in 2019–20 made a significant jump to the Central Canada Hockey League with the Carleton Place Canadians, posting a .941 save percentage and 8 shutouts in 37 games. That season, he was named the CCHL MVP and Top Goaltender, as well as the Canadian Junior Hockey League MVP and Top Goalie. He had also earned the Most Valuable Player award at the 2019 World Junior A Challenge.

The Florida Panthers selected Levi 212th overall in the seventh round of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. In January 2021, he appeared on ^[1], shortly after representing Canada at the 2021 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. That tournament ended with a silver medal for Canada, and Levi posted a .964 save percentage across seven games — a figure that, according to Wikipedia, topped the all-time tournament record previously set by Carey Price in 2007. He was named Best Goaltender of the tournament and to the All-Star Team.

His rights were traded to the Buffalo Sabres in 2021. Rather than turn pro immediately, Levi enrolled at Northeastern University in the NCAA, where he worked with goalie coach Mike Condon. In his first season with Northeastern, he appeared in 32 games and posted a .952 save percentage with 10 shutouts. He was also named to Team Canada for the 2022 Winter Olympics. He returned to Northeastern for a second NCAA season, and in the spring of 2023 made his NHL debut with the Buffalo Sabres, appearing in 7 games and going 5–2. He also appeared in one game for Canada at the 2022–23 World Championship.

Levi joined the Sabres full-time for the 2023–24 season, splitting time between Buffalo and the AHL's Rochester Americans. He appeared in 23 NHL games for the Sabres that season. The following year, 2024–25, he played primarily with Rochester, appearing in 42 regular-season games and posting a .919 save percentage with 7 shutouts, then adding 8 playoff appearances. In January 2025, he was named to his first AHL All-Star Game. He spent the 2025–26 season with Rochester as well, appearing in 52 regular-season games. His NHL career totals with Buffalo stand at 39 games played, 17 wins, 17 losses, and a .895 save percentage.

In the summer of 2026, Levi joined the Edmonton Oilers, and through 9 games of the 2026–27 season he holds a record of 8–1 with a 2.75 goals-against average.

InGoal Magazine has covered Devon Levi in four podcast appearances and eleven Pro Reads.

The first InGoal podcast appearance came in January 2021, when Levi and Garand discussed their World Junior experience. He returned to ^[2], following an extended video session in Montreal that became the foundation for a long-running series of Pro Reads breakdowns. A ^[3] captured Levi reflecting on his first full professional season — the schedule management, the mental demands of an 82-game calendar, and the hobbies he took up to stay fresh. "I used to put my arm on the bar in college," he told InGoal in a Pro Read, recalling his time at Northeastern. "I'd put my arm on the crossbar when my D was breaking out, I had so much trust in them, and goalie coach Mike Condon was like 'you probably should stop doing that.'"

On the podcast, he described the shift from college to pro as less about the physical workload than the mental one. "I had school as a distraction the year before where I could only focus on hockey so much of the day," he said, "and this year was really the first full year that I could just be hockey." He also spoke about taking up painting as a way to engage a different part of his brain between games — working through Marvel-themed canvases and beach scenes across stretches of six hours at a time.

The Pro Reads series, all written by Kevin Woodley and available to InGoal subscribers, draws on footage from those Montreal and Kelowna sessions with Levi and Raimondo. The earliest entries examine ^[4], including his approach to depth, retreat timing, and the information he gathers from a shooter's blade, hands, and the positioning of his own defencemen. Subsequent breakdowns cover ^[5], ^[6], ^[7], ^[8], ^[9], ^[10], ^[11], ^[12], ^[13], and ^[14]. Across those sessions, Levi has described his approach to letting go of technical priorities on game day: "Not every save is going to be super clean or super technically sound," he said. "Going into a game, being able to kind of drop all that stuff and let it show up — probably the hardest thing to do in goaltending, but also, in my opinion, the most important."

Sources: ^[15] (statistics and awards); InGoal.