AHL

The one prospect to watch from every AHL team

The American Hockey League has long been considered a difficult league to score in. The majority of players on that circuit are veterans who are making good scratch to play the game they love - even if it’s unlikely they’ll ever get a true look at in NHL. A lot of the ultra offensive types who aren’t quite gifted enough for an NHL top-nine job end up signing for more money in Europe where they’re treated to plane trips, nice apartments, a car, and a fancy city like Vienna or Zurich.

That’s pretty hard for Utica or Belleville to contend with.

That leaves the league a grinding style. But just because it’s a tight-checking, veteran-laden league doesn’t mean there aren’t a bushel of exciting young players working their way up. It may not be to the level of that incredible 2004-05 lockout season

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AHL AHL Nicholas Abruzzese Ronnie Attard Justin Barron Thomas Bordeleau Xavier Bourgault Mavrik Bourque Brendan Brisson Will Cuylle Lukas Dostal William Dufour Simon Edvinsson Luke Evangelista Ryker Evans Jean-Luc Foudy Ridly Greig Joel Hofer Anttoni Honka Spencer Jordan Linus Karlsson Jiri Kulich Brad Lambert Hendrix Lapierre Fabian Lysell Kirill Marchenko Simon Nemec Lukas Reichel Justin Sourdif Jordan Spence Lukas Svejkovsky Victor Söderström Jack Thompson Jesper Wallstedt Dustin Wolf
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