The Top 25 Under 25 is a collaboration by members of the Mile High Hockey community. Eight writers and 320 readers ranked players under the age of 25 as of September 1, 2018 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.
Position: RW
Age: 20 (on Oct 17th)
Likely 2018-2019 Team: Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (KHL)
Last Year Rank: NR
Reader Rank: 21
High Rank: 15 (Hardev)
Low Rank: Unranked (Tom, Cat)
KHL: 33 GP, 5 G, 1 A, 6 PTS
KHL Playoffs: 7 GP, 0 G, 2 A, 2 PTS
MHL Playoffs: 11 GP, 3 G, 6 A, 9 PTS
It was an eventful year for Nikolai Kovalenko, son of former Colorado Avalanche and Quebec Nordique Andrei Kovalenko.