As you may have noticed, we\u2019ve well and truly made it deep into the doldrums of August. And while things are surely getting a little stale as far as around the league happenings go, we\u2019ve got just the thing to keep us occupied and tide us over until things start picking up again. You guessed it, it\u2019s time again for our annual Top 25 Under 25 series!<\/p>\n
The 25 Under 25 is our check-in on the young talent within the Flyers\u2019 organization, taking a look at guys from the NHL to juniors to overseas and elsewhere. Every player under Flyers team control (either under contract or on the team\u2019s reserve list) who will be under the age of 25 on September 15, 2025 is put in a ballot, to be ranked from 1 (the best) to 25 (the 25th-best), by our esteemed panel of writers and contributors here at BSH. Ranked how? That\u2019s up to each ranker, and while the general emphasis lies on establishing the player\u2019s value to the Flyers, whether that assessment leans more heavily on current value or upside is up to the individual. <\/p>\n
Add all those ballots up, score them, and you get our final results, which we\u2019ll reveal over the next six weeks in a series of posts \u2014 one for each player in the rankings \u2014 beginning next week after a bit of introductory groundwork gets laid. Before that, a few quick housekeeping notes.<\/p>\n
The Ballot<\/p>\n
With those criteria taken into account, we had a whopping 46 players make this year\u2019s ballot. Here are those players:<\/p>\n
Defensemen (12):
Carter Amico, Emil Andrae, Oliver Bonk, Jamie Drysdale, Spencer Gill, Helge Grans, Hunter McDonald, Austin Moline, Ty Murchison, Ethan Samson, Luke Vlooswyk, Cam York
Forwards (31):\u00a0
Jon-Randall Avon, Denver Barkey, Jack Berglund, Bobby Brink, Alex Bump, Alex Ciernik, Karsen Dorwart, Tyson Foerster, Matthew Gard, Jacob Gaucher, Alexis Gendron, Nikita Grebenkin, Devin Kaplan, Cole Knuble, Jett Luchanko, Ryan MacPherson, Porter Martone, Owen McLaughlin, Matvei Michkov, Jack Murtagh, Jack Nesbitt, Ilya Pautov, Noah Powell, Nathan Quinn, Massimo Rizzo, Heikki Ruohonen, Santeri Sulku, Samu Tuomaala, Shane Vansaghi, Max Westergard, Trevor Zegras
Goaltenders (3):\u00a0
Carson Bjarnason, Aleksei Kolosov, Yegor Zavragin<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an overall jump up in volume of players on the list \u2014 up from 42 last time around \u2014 as we saw nine players added through this year\u2019s draft, two through trades, and two through signings (one free agent, and one AHL contract upgraded to an ELC), while nine have departed (but more on them later). <\/p>\n
The field is set, and the ranking will begin to unfold in just a few days. We\u2019ll see you then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As you may have noticed, we\u2019ve well and truly made it deep into the doldrums of August. And…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-76986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}