Cult of Hockey prospect series 2025: #4, Alec Regula

25 years old, 6’4″, 210 lbs., claimed on waivers

Stan Bowman likes a certain kind of d-man, at least if you go by Bowman’s 15 years with the Chicago Blackhawks organization.

The one quality that defines those d-men: puck-moving skill.

The Bowman’s Hawks had a history of drafting puck-movers, many of them relatively non-physical defenders taken in the first or second round, small d-men like Adam Boqvist, Chad Krys, Ian Mitchell, Henrik Jokiharju and Nicolas Beaudin, plus bigger ones like Alex Vlasic, Justin Holl and Carl Dahlstrom.

Bowman’s Hawks — which already had Duncan Keith in the system when he arrived in 2005 — also added numerous puck-moving pros, such as Niklas Hjalmarsson, Brian Campbell, Nick Leddy, Johnny Oduya, Kimmo Tim

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