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The Top 25 Under 25 is a collaboration by members of the Mile High Hockey community. Eight writers have ranked players under the age of 25 as of August 1, 2021 in the Colorado Avalanche organization. Each participant used their own metric of current ability and production against future projection to rank each player. Now, we’ll count down each of the 25 players ranked.
There it is, another top-25 under 25 series come and gone. For the first time, we had a list without Nathan MacKinnon but what’s amazing about this organization is the fact that the list is still headlined by two superstars. Both Cale Makar, Mikko Rantanen and probably even Sam Girard would be at the top of the vast majority of most lists around the NHL and we get to watch them all in burgundy and blue.
If nothing else, this list shows that while they’re already a Stanley Cup contender, the Avalanche have a ton of young talent that hasn't even made it to their prime yet.
In case you missed the series, here is out final list with a great article on each of the 25 players.
#1: Cale Makar
#3: Samuel Girard
#4: Bowen Byram
#5: Alex Newhook
#6: Tyson Jost
#8 Sampo Ranta
#9 Martin Kaut
t10 Jean-Luc Foudy
t10 Logan O’Connor
#12 Justus Annunen
#13: Oskar Olausson
#14: Shane Bowers
#15: Drew Helleson
#16: Sean Behrens
#17: Mikhail Maltsev
#18: Alex Beaucage
#19: Trent Miner
#20: Colby Ambrosio
#21: Dennis Gilbert
#22: Daniil Zhuravlyov
#23: Tyler Weiss
#24: Nikolai Kovalenko
#25: Nick Henry
Here are the final rankings from each of our contributors:
T25U25 Lists
Rank | Tom | Luke | Jackie | Hardev | Adrian | Evan | Alex | Partick |
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Rank | Tom | Luke | Jackie | Hardev | Adrian | Evan | Alex | Partick |
1 | Cale Makar | Cale Makar | Cale Makar | Cale Makar | Mikko Rantanen | Mikko Rantanen | Cale Makar | Cale Makar |
2 | Mikko Rantanen | Mikko Rantanen | Mikko Rantanen | Mikko Rantanen | Cale Makar | Cale Makar | Mikko Rantanen | Mikko Rantanen |
3 | Samuel Girard | Samuel Girard | Samuel Girard | Samuel Girard | Samuel Girard | Samuel Girard | Samuel Girard | Bowen Byram |
4 | Alex Newhook | Alex Newhook | Bowen Byram | Tyson Jost | Tyson Jost | Tyson Jost | Bowen Byram | Alex Newhook |
5 | Bowen Byram | Bowen Byram | Alex Newhook | Bowen Byram | Alex Newhook | Bowen Byram | Alex Newhook | Samuel Girard |
6 | Tyson Jost | Tyson Jost | Justin Barron | Alex Newhook | Logan O'Connor | Alex Newhook | Tyson Jost | Tyson Jost |
7 | Justin Barron | Justin Barron | Tyson Jost | Sampo Ranta | Bowen Byram | Logan O'Connor | Justin Barron | Justin Barron |
8 | Shane Bowers | Martin Kaut | Sampo Ranta | Shane Bowers | Martin Kaut | Sampo Ranta | Martin Kaut | Sampo Ranta |
9 | Jean-Luc Foudy | Oskar Olausson | Oskar Olausson | Alex Beaucage | Sampo Ranta | Martin Kaut | Sampo Ranta | Logan O'Connor |
10 | Justus Annunen | Shane Bowers | Martin Kaut | Jean-Luc Foudy | Justus Annunen | Justin Barron | Jean-Luc Foudy | Justus Annunen |
11 | Oskar Olausson | Justus Annunen | Jean-Luc Foudy | Sean Behrens | Justin Barron | Justus Annunen | Justus Annunen | Martin Kaut |
12 | Logan O'Connor | Drew Helleson | Drew Helleson | Oskar Olausson | Drew Helleson | Drew Helleson | Logan O'Connor | Jean-Luc Foudy |
13 | Drew Helleson | Jean-Luc Foudy | Sean Behrens | Logan O'Connor | Jean-Luc Foudy | Oskar Olausson | Drew Helleson | Oskar Olausson |
14 | Sean Behrens | Sean Behrens | Justus Annunen | Justin Barron | Shane Bowers | Jean-Luc Foudy | Oskar Olausson | Drew Helleson |
15 | Sampo Ranta | Logan O'Connor | Shane Bowers | Trent Miner | Oskar Olausson | Shane Bowers | Shane Bowers | Alex Beaucage |
16 | Colby Ambrosio | Mikhail Maltsev | Colby Ambrosio | Mikhail Maltsev | Dennis Gilbert | Alex Beaucage | Mikhail Maltsev | Sean Behrens |
17 | Martin Kaut | Sampo Ranta | Nikolai Kovalenko | Martin Kaut | Mikhail Maltsev | Mikhail Maltsev | Sean Behrens | Dennis Gilbert |
18 | Alex Beaucage | Nikolai Kovalenko | Logan O'Connor | Justus Annunen | Alex Beaucage | Sean Behrens | Colby Ambrosio | Mikhail Maltsev |
19 | Mikhail Maltsev | Colby Ambrosio | Mikhail Maltsev | Drew Helleson | Trent Miner | Dennis Gilbert | Alex Beaucage | Shane Bowers |
20 | Danila Zhuravlyov | Trent Miner | Alex Beaucage | Tyler Weiss | Vladislav Kamenev | Trent Miner | Trent Miner | Colby Ambrosio |
21 | Trent Miner | Dennis Gilbert | Tyler Weiss | Andrei Buyalsky | Nicholas Henry | Nicholas Henry | Danila Zhuravlyov | Nicholas Henry |
22 | Dennis Gilbert | Andreas Wingerli | Trent Miner | Andreas Wingerli | Tyler Weiss | Keaton Middleton | Dennis Gilbert | Danila Zhuravlyov |
23 | Nikolai Kovalenko | Danila Zhuravlyov | Andrei Buyalsky | Matthew Stienburg | Danila Zhuravlyov | Tyler Weiss | Andrei Buyalsky | Keaton Middleton |
24 | Andrei Buyalsky | Alex Beaucage | Danila Zhuravlyov | Colby Ambrosio | Nicky Leivermann | Nicky Leivermann | Tyler Weiss | Nathan Clurman |
25 | Tyler Weiss | Tyler Weiss | Nicky Leivermann | Nils Aman | Taylor Makar | Colby Ambrosio | Nikolai Kovalenko | Taylor Makar |