Our annual Top 25 Under 25 countdown has begun! The rankings were determined by a combination of reader voting and our staff’s own voting. We then combined the reader rankings (50%) and the staff rankings (50%) to determine the top 25. To be eligible for the countdown, a player must be 24 or younger on October 3, 2018, when the 2018-19 NHL season begins.
The votes are all tallied and your top 25 list is coming at you starting on Monday, but first, we wanted to give you a glimpse of some players who just barely missed the cut.