As we progress through our articles detailing this year’s Top 25 Under 25 rankings, one of the recurring themes will be just how deep the Sens’ system is. In another year, or in another organization, Filip Gustavsson might not have taken so dramatic a tumble down the rankings. This might also be the case of a temporary dip, the readers have him much higher than the staff for instance, and goalie prospects are notoriously difficult to predict. Gustavsson also has a good pedigree; he was named the top goalie at the 2018 World Junior Championships and prospect guru Corey Pronman had this to say about him in his NHL farm system rankings in August 2018:
Gustavsson has been one of the top goalies in his age group for the last few years.