The Top 25 Under 25 is a collaboration by members of the Mile High Hockey community. Eight writers have ranked players under the age of 25 as of August 1, 2021 in the Colorado Avalancheorganization. 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.
Age: 21
Position: G
Height: 6’4”
Weight: 209 lbs
Likely 2021-22 team: Colorado Eagles (AHL)
Final Rank: #12
2019 Rank: #22
High Rank: #10 (Tom, Patrick)
Low Rank: #18 (Hardev)
When the Colorado Avalanche moved on from Semyon Varlamov in 2019, it seemed likely that Philipp Grubauer had been acquired to be the team’s goaltender of the present — and that Finnish goaltending prospect Justus Annunen, drafted in the third round by Colorado in 2018, was poised to be the team’s goaltender of the future.