The offseason might be well and truly into full swing, but we’re still working hard to find enough to keep us occupied, lest the doldrums set in. With the season getting going a little earlier this year, we’re diving into the summer edition of our favorite series a little early, in turn. That’s right, it’s Top 25 Under 25 time!
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, 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’s up to each ranker, and while the general emphasis lies on establishing the player’s value to the Flyers, whether that assessment leans more heavily on current value or upside is up to the individual.
Add all those ballots up, score them, and you get our final results, which we’ll reveal over the next six weeks in a series of posts — one for each player in the rankings — beginning later on this week week after a bit of introductory groundwork gets laid. Before that, a few quick housekeeping notes.
The Ballot
With those criteria taken into account, we had a whopping 41 players make this year’s ballot. Here are those players:
Defensemen (13):
Carter Amico, Oliver Bonk, Jamie Drysdale, Spencer Gill, Helge Grans, David Jiricek, Max Laatikainen, Brek Liske, Hunter McDonald, Austin Moline, Ty Murchison, Maksim Sokolovskii, Luke Vlooswyk
Forwards (23):
Denver Barkey, Jack Berglund, Alex Bump, Alex Ciernik, Tyson Foerster, Matthew Gard, Nikita Grebenkin, Devin Kaplan, Cole Knuble, Jett Luchanko, Ryan MacPherson, Porter Martone, Matvei Michkov, Jack Murtagh, Jack Nesbitt, Ilya Pautov, Noah Powell, Nathan Quinn, Heikki Ruohonen, KJ Sauer, Riley Thompson, Shane Vansaghi, Max Westergard
Goaltenders (5):
Carson Bjarnason, Aleksei Kolosov, Martin Psohlavec, Marek Sklenicka, Yegor Zavragin
This is a bit of a dip down in terms of overall volume of players — down from 46 players on the ballot last time around — but this group is looking a bit more balanced, as the Flyers thinned out their forward group a bit through trades and letting others walk in free agency (opting not to extend qualifying offers), while shifting to add heavily in this draft in the defense and goaltending departments. It still leaves them with quite a deep prospect pool but it’s no longer looking quite so top heavy, which is a bit of a plus.
But, with all of that said, the field is set, and the ranking will begin to unfold in just a few days. We’ll see you then!
