Another season of hockey has passed, and hoo boy was it a strange one. Usually we’d full on into the first week of the regular season by now, but with COVID shutting things down and pushing everything back, we are just emerging from free agency now.
With that in mind, we figured it would be a good time to start our annual Matchsticks and Gasoline Top 25 Under 25 ranking, where we rank all players under the age of 25 in the organization. To maintain consistency from past years, we will be once again using August 1 as the cutoff date for ages, so for example: Artyom Zagidullin turned 25 on August 8 2020, but since last year he was 23 on August 1 2019, he will be considered 24 for this list thus he’s not aged out/ineligible.