HW Top 25 Under 25: #21 Pavel Jenys

The Wild drafted Pavel Jenys in 2014, but he did not make last year’s list of the Top 25 Under 25 because he was such an unknown quantity. Since the Czech native spent his prior seasons in Europe, we hadn't had much chance to see him play in North America. But last season, he played in the OHL for the Sudbury Wolves, the worst team in Canadian junior. The team’s lack of success was no fault of Jenys’s as he led the team in points with 45, and tied for the lead in assists with 30 (in five fewer games than the player with whom he tied). While his production was slightly less than the other two forwards selected in the late rounds of 2014 (Chase Lang of the Calgary Hitmen and Reid Duke of the Brandon Wheat Kings), he could possibly have an even larger impact on the Wild’s farm system than Lang or Duke.

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