The Top 25 Under 25 is a collaboration by members of the Die By The Blade community. It was a combination of six staff writers and over 485 fans that ranked players under the age of 25 as of August 10, 2021. Each participant used their own metric of current ability and production to rank each player.
Make no mistake, throughout his entire career with the Buffalo Sabres, Tage Thompson is going to be measured by the yardstick that he came over in the Ryan O’Reilly trade, and short of winning the Conn Smythe Trophy, he will always be found short.