Ottawa Senators Top 25 Under 25, #10: Alex Formenton

Photo by Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesWelcome, beloved readers, to the top ten. With a group of prospects unlike any we’ve ever seen before in Ottawa, the remainder of this list, I assure you, will not disappoint. When Jacob Bernard-Docker and Vitaly Abramov don’t make the top ten, you know you have something special going on. Today, returning to the top ten we have speedy winger Alex Formenton. As you know, the Senators selected Formenton 47th overall in the 2017 entry draft in what ended up being a more quality over quantity crop for Ottawa. Having gone on their deepest playoff run in a decade, picks were few, and this second-rounder came to fruition only through the departure of Curtis Lazar. Looking back on that draft only three years later and having but two prospects to show for it would sting a lot were those prospects not Formenton and Drake Batherson.

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