After five productive seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with the Erie Otters and the Niagara IceDogs, Ivan Lodnia needs to make the jump to the professional game, and he looks ready.
Age: 21
At 21 years old, he headed overseas to the Dinamo Minsk of the KHL this past season for 27 games, but don’t worry — he returned stateside to the Iowa Wild for training camp in January. He pretty quickly was sidelined indefinitely after suffering an injury, so we never got to see him apply his trade on AHL ice last season.
The gulf is wide between the expectations for what Lodnia can become and what we here at Hockey Wilderness think he is.