Bleacher Report · Sep 23, 2020
NHL Prospects: Top 25 Prospects Around the NHL
A regular season that ended in March. A playoff tournament that began in August. A Stanley Cup that will be awarded in September. Such is the reality—pandemic style—of the National Hockey League in 2020.
And with free agency, draft day and the start of another round of training camps on the chaotic horizon, the B/R ice hockey team got together once again to look at the 25 players already past the drafting stage who are most likely to begin making an impact in NHL buildings over the next few seasons.
We used the league's Calder Trophy rules as a loose guideline to select our prospects, meaning all players are 26 or younger and have not played more than 25 games in a single NHL season.