All CHGO’s Greg Boysen looks at Alex Vlasic, whom Kyle Davidson pegged early as a core piece of the rebuild and who, at 25, is now Chicago’s second-most experienced defenseman behind partner Ian Cole.
Boysen notes Vlasic was set to play his 267th NHL game against Pittsburgh, still inside the roughly 300-game learning curve Chris Pronger has described for young defensemen. The full piece, including Vlasic’s thoughts on how confidence comes and goes, is for Diehard subscribers.