On a blue line stacked with highly-talented youngsters, Hampus Lindholm took major strides this season to separate himself from the rest of them as the best of the lot.
With their highest draft pick since 2005, the Anaheim Ducks selected a young, relatively unknown Swedish defenseman by the name of Hampus Lindholm with the sixth-overall pick in the 2012 draft. This proved to be a somewhat controversial pick initially as highly-touted prospects Matt Dumba, Jacob Trouba, and Olli Maatta were all still available. Most Ducks fans would love to forget the season that was the 2011-12, one which saw the Ducks fire coach Randy Carlyle after a horrendous start to the season, one which Bruce Boudreau would never be able to get the team to recover from.