Bulls Release the 2025 Protected Players List
By David Koonce| Birmingham Bulls
The Birmingham Bulls have announced their Protected Players list for the 2025-26 Season.
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Ben Higgins
Andrew Bellant
Kolten Olynek
Nikita Kozyrev
Filimon Ledziankou
Arkhip Ledziankou
Macgregor Sinclair
Shane Murphy
Defensemen
Taylor Brierley
Connor Scahill
Jamie Dorsey
Kyler Matthews
Cole Jungwirth
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About Protected Players Lists:
Each SPHL team is permitted to protect any combination of 13 players that were on last season’s roster. A player being on this list DOES NOT guarantee that they will play for that team next season, just that the team retains the player’s rights heading into next season, preventing them from signing with another SPHL team. Those rights can be traded, and if a player plays in a different league, his rights remain with the SPHL team that protected him.
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Solid protected list overall — locking up the young core makes sense, though leaving a couple of veterans exposed still feels risky if Birmingham is actually planning a run this year. The goaltending depth is the part I'd question most, honestly. Curious to see who ends up getting claimed. Off-topic, but with no games to watch for a while I've been burning time on a horror visual novel and using The False Sun guide to track down all 20 endings. Surprisingly addictive.
Seeing Birmingham Bulls release their 2025 protected players list is always a fascinating puzzle—who stays, who gets exposed, and what it says about next season's roster. I get why fans debate every name. If you enjoy that kind of roster-sheet brain teaser, I’ve been killing time with Poople Unlimited: endless word ladder puzzles, no daily cap, no download. You can start a new game anytime and even check the step-by-step solution when stuck.
The Birmingham Bulls’ 2025 protected players list is always a key offseason moment, and it’s interesting to see which core pieces the organization wants to build around. After reading it, I started thinking about where these players developed and the road trips across different hockey towns. If you enjoy that kind of geography challenge, Play World Guesser is a fun, free way to test your instincts by guessing random Street View locations with unlimited rounds and no sign-up. Check it out: https://playworldguesser.com/
Interesting to see how the Bulls shaped their protection list — keeping the core intact while exposing a couple of familiar names feels like a calculated gamble with expansion talk heating up. Depth wins championships, and this roster still looks balanced. Roster tinkering always gets me thinking about customization, which is why I've been burning time between games on the low-poly racer at https://playpolytrack.com/guides/polytrack-beginner-guide, where community-built courses scratch that same build-and-test itch. Curious whether fans think Birmingham got it right, or if a name or two surprised you.
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