The Broad Street Hockey Top 25 Under 25 is back. Instead of waiting until the dead of summer to look at the young crop of players on the Philadelphia Flyers, we have decided to do something we haven’t done in years: Do it in the middle of the season in a more condensed version.
Instead of going player-by-player in separate articles, we’ll take a group of them and in a roundtable format, give our thoughts and feelings about the player and where we ranked them on our own ballots. A total of 10 ballots were submitted from folks here at Broad Street Hockey but of course 10 blurbs about a player taken in the fifth round of a draft a couple years ago, might be a bit much — so if you’re wondering why the numbers may not add up, there’s that.
One more quick thing to note, since this is midseason, we gave a birthdate cut-off of Dec. 31, 1999. With that, the only player that has now officially aged out is Sam Ersson.
Enough blabbering on about the process, who made the list and who is no longer eligible, let’s get to talking about some guys.
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