This year’s Top 25 Under 25 list of Maple Leafs players and prospects is unusual in many ways, not least because it’s short. All of the draft picks not considered in a theoretical way on the list would have likely been unranked players. It’s possible some would have gotten a vote or two, but it would be very unusual for any of them to get any attention as late-round, faint-hope draftees. Adding them to the unranked leaves us with about the usual number of choices there, but the list of honourable mentions is surprisingly short.
As we’ll learn as the 25 names are counted down to our mystery number one player, there’s more agreement than usual.