Stop me if you’ve heard this before: we have a tie at the top of our annual Top 25 Under 25 rankings, but this time, it isn’t between Nylander and Marner. This time, it’s our top defensive prospect, Rasmus Sandin, tied with arguably our top forward prospect Rodion Amirov.
It’s an interesting pair of players to be tied, as they have some similarities and differences from each other even outside of their position. Sandin is an older prospect at 21 years old, having been drafted in 2018 at the end of the first round. Amirov is relatively new, but technically only one calendar year younger than Sandin despite being taken two drafts apart thanks to his October birthday.