As you may have noticed, we’ve 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’ve got just the thing to keep us occupied and tide us over until things start picking up again. You guessed it, it’s time again for our annual Top 25 Under 25 series!
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 next 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 46 players make this year’s ballot. Here are those players:
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):
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):
Carson Bjarnason, Aleksei Kolosov, Yegor Zavragin
It’s an overall jump up in volume of players on the list — up from 42 last time around — as we saw nine players added through this year’s 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).
The field is set, and the ranking will begin to unfold in just a few days. We’ll see you then!