Top 25 Under 25: Denis Malgin makes his first and only appearance at #16

Photo by Kevin Sousa/NHLI via Getty ImagesIt’s not often we get a one and done player for our Top 25 Under 25 list, but here comes Denis Malgin.

You can be forgiven for not remembering he was even on the team at this point because he played in only nine games with them before the league shut down.

Where did he come from again?

The 24 year-old was acquired in a mid-February trade where the Maple Leafs sent Mason Marchment to the Panthers. Malgin was a Panthers draft pick in 2015. He played in Switzerland on the ZSC Lions through the end of the 2015-16 season—with a teenage hockey savant named Auston Matthews—and then joined the Panthers for the next season. He bounced between the Panthers and…