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-man: puck-moving skill.

The Bownan’s Hawks had a history of drafting puck-movers, many of them 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 Timonen, Trevor

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