Winter Top 25 Under 25: You know who is 4th and 5th

Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty ImagesOur Maple Leafs Top 25 ranking has been lacking in suspense at the top end for some time. Everyone knows who the top three are going to be, and while there is always a varying amount of disagreement in who is second and who is third, no official vote has dropped either William Nylander or Mitch Marner down to fourth. The occasional voter has, and there’s a very tiny constituency of community voters who are true believers in Mitch Marner over Auston Matthews for for the top spot, but both of those opinions are far out of the mainstream.

Next year, William Nylander graduates to old man status, and the question becomes a lot more complex in ways we…