The Milwaukee Admirals, the Nashville Predators‘ AHL affiliate, have one of the league’s youngest rosters, including four players who age-wise could have spent an overage season in junior hockey. With so many Predators prospects playing for the Admirals — and several others either in Europe or playing college hockey — Nashville has just three prospects playing major junior hockey this season.
Of those three only 18-year-old Justin Kirkland of the Western Hockey League‘s Kelowna Rockets, a third round pick in the 2014 NHL Draft, appears to be a sure thing as far as one day signing an NHL contract with the Predators.… read more
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