I don’t know if you’ve checked the calendar lately, but it is very much August right now. Which, if you’re familiar with how we do things here at Broad Street Hockey, means one thing: It’s time for a new version of the Philadelphia Flyers Top 25 Under 25!
The 25 Under 25 is our check-in on the young talent within the Flyers’ 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’s reserve list) who will be under the age of 25 on September 15, 2024 is put in a ballot, to be ranked from 1 (the best) to 25 (the 25th-best), by our esteemed panel of 11 different writers and contributors here at BSH. Ranked how? Our panel has some discretion in how they choose to rank players, but generally speaking our group tried to establish what they consider each player’s value to be to the Flyers as an organization based on where they are right now.
Add all those ballots up, score them, and you get our final results, which we’ll reveal over the next five weeks in a series of posts — one for each player in the rankings — starting later today with No. 25. Before that, some quick housekeeping notes.
The ballot
Forty-two players made our cut. (An enormous thanks to the late great CapFriendly, from which I was able to pull this list of players as well as all of their relevant information literally the night before the site shut down back in July.) Here are those players:
Defensemen (15):
Emil Andrae, Oliver Bonk, Jamie Drysdale, Spencer Gill, Adam Ginning, Helge Grans, Matteo Mann, Hunter McDonald, Austin Moline, Ty Murchison, Ethan Samson, Carter Sotheran, Cam York, Egor Zamula, Brian Zanetti
Forwards (23):
Jon-Randall Avon, Denver Barkey, Jack Berglund, Bobby Brink, Alex Bump, Alex Ciernik, Elliot Desnoyers, Joel Farabee, Tyson Foerster, Alexis Gendron, Devin Kaplan, Cole Knuble, Jett Luchanko, Ryan MacPherson, Owen McLaughlin, Matvei Michkov, Ilya Pautov, Noah Powell, Massimo Rizzo, Heikki Ruohonen, Santeri Sulku, Samu Tuomaala, Zayde Wisdom
Goaltenders (4):
Carson Bjarnason, Samuel Ersson, Alexei Kolosov, Yegor Zavragin
Honorable mentions
Finally, before we begin, a quick nod to the five guys who came closest to cracking the Top 25:
30. Ilya Pautov
29. Carter Sotheran
28. Alexis Gendron
27. Helge Grans
26. Noah Powell
We’ll be back with No. 25 on the countdown a bit later today.
