Buffalo Sabres Top 25 Under 25: #24 Aaron Huglen

Huglen at the USA Hockey All-American Prospects GameThe Top 25 Under 25 is a collaboration by members of the Die By The Blade community. It was a combination of six staff writers and over 485 fans that ranked players under the age of 25 as of August 10, 2021. Each participant used their own metric of current ability and production to rank each player.

Acquired: 2019 4th round pick (#102)

If you take anything away from this write-up, it should be that Aaron Huglen is a battler. He picked up an innocuous-seeming injury while lifting weights in the gym, and that turned into something quite horrible, resulting in a COVID-delayed surgery and a 20-month layoff that he only returned from earlier…