Playoffs in most junior and European professional leagues are well underway. There are also plenty of new faces for the Bakersfield Condors, and the Fort Wayne Komets.
An Edmonton Oilers prospect is on the move in the Ontario Hockey League, after the Ottawa 67’s traded forward Brady Stonehour to the Peterborough Petes.
A note about the criteria of to be included in this countdown. The player must be 25 or younger when the season starts and he must have played less than 50 NHL games.
Last week, we featured Cameron Wright, who was playing ECHL minutes the prior season, but because he started to score with Bakersfield this year, it got him a push.