The Top 25 Under 25 is a collaboration by members of the RawCharge community. Ten writers and 106 readers ranked players under the age of 25 as of September 1, 2017 in the Tampa Bay Lightning 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, plus Honorable Mentions.
Age: 24
2017-2018 Stats:
Tampa Bay Lightning, playoffs: 0 GP, 0 P, 0 A, 0 P, 0 PIM, +/- 0
Last Year Rank: 6
Reader Rank: 8
Writer Rank: 14
This past season, many of the Lightning faithful were anxiously waiting for Slater Koekkoek to break into the team’s top six defense rotation and make his draft position back in 2012 not look poor in hindsight.