2024 Hockey Eligibles
Braydon Coburn had a phenomenal career in Junior Hockey, winning Gold in the World Juniors and WJU18 while excelling at the blueline for the Portland Winter Hawks. Coburn was a First Round Pick (8th Overall) in 2003, debuting two years later with the Atlanta Thrashers, but he only played 38 Games in ATL before he was traded to Philadelphia. Coburn honed his skills in Broad Street, becoming…
Splitting his professional career with Toronto and St. Louis, Carl Gunnarson was a traditional stay-at-home Defenseman who rarely drew penalties. Gunnarson had three seasons where he received Lady Byng votes, and he only had 179 Penalty Minutes over 629 Games. A member of the 2019 Stanley Cup Championship Team with the Blues, Gunnarson scored 138 Points with a Plus/Minus of 41 over his career. Internationally, Gunnarson won…
From Minneapolis, David Backes played the majority of pro career with the St. Louis Blues, a squad he plated the first ten years of his sixteen NHL campaign with. Backes scored 45 or more Points seven times with St. Louis, with a peak of 62 in 2010/11/. The Center was not a first line player, but was a very good two-way performer, who had five consecutive…
Jussi Jokinen may not have been considered a star in terms of his National Hockey League performance, but the Finnish Center appeared in 951 Games, though he never had more than 288 for any team. Jokinen suited up for Dallas, Tampa Bay, Carolina, Pittsburgh, Florida, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Columbus and Chicago, and scored 563 Points, a respectable number. Five times, he had 50-Point seasons, his best…
Niklas Hjalmarsson played most of his NHL career with the Chicago Blackhawks and he is one of seven players who was a member of the 2010, 2012 and 2015 Stanley Cup Championship Teams. Hjalmarsson was a tradition stay-at-home Defeneseman, but he did have two seasons (2013-14 & 2015-16) where he cracked the 20-Point threshold. Internationally, he won a Silver Medal with Sweden in the 2016 Olympics.
Travis Zajac was taken in the First Round in the 2006 Draft (20thOverall), and the native of Winnipeg cracked the New Jersey Devils roster immediately, with a 42 Point Season and a tenth-place finish in Calder voting. Zajac developed into a solid two-way forward, and in both 2008-09 and 2009-10, he cracked 60 Points and was in the top ten in Frank J. Selke voting,…