If you’ve followed Hockey Wilderness’ Top 25 Under 25 since it’s inception in 2014, there’s been one name on each list for the past six iterations of the list — make that seven if we had done the list last season. And in his final year of eligibility, he makes our list of top prospects one final time, coming in at No. 17.
But despite ranking as high as the eighth-rated prospect on our mostly-annual T25U25 list, defenseman Louie Belpedio has only cracked the NHL roster for a total of three NHL games thanks to the perennial logjam that is the defensive depth chart of the Minnesota Wild.