Ottawa Senators Top 25 Under 25, #18: Filip Chlapik

Photo by Brett Holmes/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesAs Mikhail Gorbachev once said, “If you don’t move forward, sooner or later you begin to move backward”. The stakes here, the ranking of the Ottawa Senators’ young stars, might not be quite as high as nuclear disarmament but the sentiment remains true nonetheless. Filip Chlapik had a perfectly good season last year, and yet he failed to cement his case for a role with the NHL squad this year and thus he finds himself tumbling down our list.

I’ll preface the rest of this article by saying that I was actually quite a bit higher on Chlapik than our readers and some other members of the staff; I had him all the way up at 13. But even in my…