Top 25 Chicago Blackhawks Prospects: Criteria & Eligible Players
The Blackhawks have some intriguing names coming up through the system, and I wanted to try and rank them.
The past few years have been pretty rough for the Chicago Blackhawks and their prospects. The likes of Alex DeBrincat, Kirby Dach, Adam Boqvist and Henri Jokiharju have all been traded, and later round picks have not panned out.
The good news is that Kyle Davidson is changing how the Blackhawks will draft/develop prospects (which they have been very bad at recently). While we won’t know for a few years how the 2022 Blackhawks Draft Class will look, it did add talent to a depleted farm system.
Because of that added talent, I figured now would be a great time to start my list of the Top 25 Prospects in the Chicago Blackhawks’ organization (which I will be doing for the preseason, midseason, trade deadline, and end of season).
Criteria:
My criteria for this list is pretty straightforward:
The player must be 24-years-old or younger (age cutoff is October 1st)
The NHL games played cutoff is 100 games
The player will not be eligible if they have played 50 or more NHL games in an NHL season
During the season there will definitely be some names that come and go because of these criteria, so it will be something to watch out for.
Eligible Players:
Nolan Allan, LHD, Prince Albert Raiders, 19 y/o
Evan Barratt, C/LW, Rockford IceHogs, 23 y/o
Dominic Basse, G, St. Cloud State University, 21 y/o
Nicolas Beaudin, RHD, Rockford IceHogs, 22 y/o
Drew Commesso, G, Boston University, 20 y/o
Louis Crevier, RHD, Rockford IceHogs, 21 y/o
Colton Dach, C/LW, Kelowna Rockets, 19 y/o
Ethan Del Mastro, LHD, Mississauga Steelheads, 19 y/o
Slava Demin, LHD, Merrimack College, 22 y/o
Parker Foo, LW, Kunlun Red Star, 24 y/o
Jakub Galvas, LHD, Rockford IceHogs, 23 y/o
Liam Gorman, C, Princeton University, 22 y/o
Ryan Greene, C, Boston University, 18 y/o
Taige Harding, LHD, Providence College, 20 y/o
Mike Hardman, LW/C, Rockford IceHogs, 23 y/o
Gavin Hayes, LW, Flint Firebirds, 18 y/o
Dominic James, LW/C, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 20 y/o
Reese Johnson, C/RW, Rockford IceHogs, 24 y/o
Nils Juntorp, RW, Dubuque Fighting Saints, 18 y/o
Wyatt Kaiser, LHD, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 20 y/o
Artur Kayumov, LW/RW, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, 24 y/o
Connor Kelley, RHD, Providence College, 20 y/o
Michael Krutil, RHD, HC Sparta Praha, 20 y/o
Paul Ludwinski, C, Kingston Frontenacs, 18 y/o
Jalen Luypen, C/LW, Rockford IceHogs, 20 y/o
Ian Mitchell, RHD, Rockford IceHogs, 23 y/o
Frank Nazar, C/RW, University of Michigan, 18 y/o
Isaak Phillips, LHD, Rockford IceHogs, 21 y/o
Jakub Pour, RW, Rockford IceHogs, 23 y/o
Alec Regula, RHD, Rockford IceHogs, 22 y/o
Lukas Reichel, C/LW, Rockford IceHogs, 20 y/o
Sam Rinzel, RHD, Waterloo Black Hawks, 18 y/o
Ryder Rolston, RW/C, University of Notre Dame, 20 y/o
Filip Roos, LHD, Rockford IceHogs, 23 y/o
Antti Saarela, C/LW, Lukko, 21 y/o
Ilya Safonov, C, Ak Bars Kazan, 21 y/o
Samuel Savoie, LW/C, Gatineau Olympiques, 18 y/o
Landon Slaggert, LW/C, University of Notre Dame, 20 y/o
Josiah Slavin, C/LW, Rockford IceHogs, 23 y/o
Arvid Söderblom, G, Rockford IceHogs, 23 y/o
Jaxson Stauber, G, Rockford IceHogs, 23 y/o
Victor Stjernborg, C/LW, Växjö Lakers HC, 19 y/o
Michal Teplý, LW/RW, Rockford IceHogs, 21 y/o
Aidan Thompson, C, University of Denver, 20 y/o
Riku Tohila, C, JYP U20, 18 y/o
Jake Wise, C, Ohio State University, 22 y/o
That’s a lot of prospects, and I’ll have to choose my top 25?!? Expect the first part (honorable mentions) to drop on Thursday, August 4th!
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