Ottawa Senators Top 25 Under 25: Honourable Mentions 2022

Photo by Steven Kingsman/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesPop quiz: what do Viktor Lodin, Philippe Daoust, Angus Crookshank, Mads Søgaard, and Maxence Guenette all have in common (other than the Ottawa Senators drafting them)? Well they all missed out on our annual Top 25 Under 25 rankings at least once before eventually making the cut. (I always believed in them, though.) And thus I assembled them in my honourable mentions lists of years past. Now I must confess that I have gotten some of my honourable mention predictions wrong over the years (including three of the five players I’ll profile (again!) today) but I gotta real good feeling this time, folks! Every year I think Ottawa’s prospect pool will thin out to a point when we’ll scrape the bottom of the barrel just to get to 25. And yet here we are in the year of our lord 2022 and we still have some pretty decent Senators who couldn’t crack the 25.

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