It was about three and a half years ago, that the first iteration of the Top 25 Under 25 appeared on Pension Plan Puppets. Having been influenced by sites like Coppernblue, who had been performing their own list, and looking for an avenue by which to get into occasionally blogging about the Maple Leafs, that I brought the idea to the site.
Now a staple of the site's summer coverage, at the time it was not really meant to be much more than it is now; a method by which the people who write for the site to take the temperature of the team's young players.