2016 Top 25 Under 25

June 30th, 2015. The hockey world dropped their collective jaws to the floor as Chicago, fresh off their Stanley Cup win, traded Brandon Saad to Columbus. A casualty of the Blackhawks’ perennial cap crunch, he was quickly signed to a six year, $36 million deal, immediately becoming the highest paid

He’s gonna be a big, big star

Boone Jenner came of age in the 2015-16 season, tying for 18th in the NHL with 30 goals, playing 82 games, and generally looking like the force the Blue Jackets expected when they selected him in the 2nd Round of the 2011 Entry Draft, the #37 pick overall.   Suffice it

Murray got a bridge deal, stayed healthy, and looked better once Seth Jones arrived. It is now time for him to take another step forward.

I swear I didn’t have to bribe anyone to get this assignment

If there was a bright spot to emerge from the darkness of last season, it was perhaps the play of Joonas Korpisalo.  He progressed rapidly from "that young Finnish kid whose name Tortorella cannot pronounce" to the keeper of the blue ice, when both Sergei Bobrovsky and Curtis McElhinney were

All Dubois has to do is shine, make a push for the big club, develop quickly into a number one center, stop taking so many penalties, and fix the franchise’s playmaker issues. No pressure!

Milano cracks the top ten, but where does he fit in the organization?