Nick Ritchie hardly looks the part, but the baby-faced 21-year-old is practically a sage veteran among some young Ducks players.
He has 93 NHL games under his belt, roughly twice the respective numbers for Ondrej Kase and Joseph Cramarossa and 81 games more than Brandon Montour has played. Those teammates are his age or older, which shows the accelerated path of Ritchie this season.
Thrust into a top-six forward role after the suspension of Antoine Vermette, Ritchie has produced on a line with Kase and Ryan Getzlaf.