No. 18: Gabriel Gagne (Reader rank: 17, Last year: 14)
Sometimes, when a player drops a few spots in our Top 25 rankings it’s because the organization has improved its talent pool. This isn’t necessarily a negative reflection on the players, you can only control so much after all. Unfortunately, the rest of the time that a player finds themselves a few notches below their prior season rank it’s often because of a failure to realize some of their potential. In Gabriel Gagne’s case, his 2016-17 season was very much the latter; thus his fall from 14th to 18th.