For the Winter T25U25 list, we were expecting to have some new names since the Leafs had a lot of draft picks. By the time the draft arrived, those picks just started to multiply.
By the end of the draft, they’d all turned into actual people, not ideas of people, which should make everyone happy.
The Summer list had three draft picks ranked, the second rounder was tenth, and the two fourth rounders were 23rd and 25th. Kasperi Kapanen was sixth. And he and those picks turned into most of the new names on this year’s list.