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Top 25 Under 25 - Summer 2013 - Final Rankings

It's too bad that the guys at the top of this list will never move beyond the second line.

By Scott Reynolds
USA TODAY Sports

This is the fourth summer that we've done a Top 25 Under 25 for the Edmonton Oilers, but the first summer that hasn't seen a player added in one of the top five spots. That this is the case even though the Oilers selected Darnell Nurse with the seventh overall pick in June speaks very highly indeed of the best young players in the system, and with exactly zero players from the top twenty set to graduate based on age in the next year, the Summer 2014 list promises to be even better. I don't know if it'll happen this year, but sometime soon, this team is going to be very good, and it could last a good long while.

As for this year's list, things break into three tiers quite nicely. The first tier runs from first through ninth; not everyone has the nine players in the same order, but everyone agrees on the same nine guys except DB who dropped Oscar Klefbom to 11th. These are the team's best young players, and all of them would likely fetch something notable for the team via trade. Magnus Paajarvi, for example, would have been in this group, but the Oilers cashed him in for an established top-six player in David Perron.

The second tier runs from tenth through twentieth. Once again, the panelists don't agree on where these guys fit, but almost everyone agrees that these eleven players should hold these spots (the exceptions are Martin Gernat with one ranking of 9th and both Anton Slepyshev and Philip Larsen with one ranking of 21st). These eleven players are legitimate prospects, and one or two will probably turn out, but you wouldn't want to bet on any one of them in particular.

Lastly, we've got the longshots, which is everyone ranked 21st or lower. Some of these guys have a better shot at making it than others, but I'd probably set the over/under for above-average NHL players at one (and that might be optimistic).

The chart below shows each writer's individual rankings as well as the overall list. The columns are sortable; just click on the name on the top of the column that you'd like to see and you're ready to go.

Overall Player AH Ben Bruce DB DZ JW MP RB SR
1 Taylor Hall 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
2 Nail Yakupov 2 2 3 2 1 3 2 2 2
3 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 3 3 2 5 5 (Tie)
 2 3 4 3
4 Jordan Eberle 5
 5
 4
 3 7
 4 4
 5
 4
5
 Justin Schultz
 4
 6
 5 4
 3
 5 5
 3
 6
6 Sam Gagner 6 4 6 7
 5 (Tie)
 7
 6 6 7
7 Darnell Nurse 8
 7
 8 6
 4
 6
 8
 8
 5
8 Oscar Klefbom 7
 9
 7 11 8
 8
 7
 7
 8
9 Martin Marincin 9
 8 9 8 9
 9
 9 9 9
10 Martin Gernat 14 11 11 9 13 12 11 11 11
11 Teemu Hartikainen 13 10 13 10 12 14 13 12 13
12 Jujhar Khaira 10 13 12 12 11 10 16 13 16
13 Dillon Simpson 11 17 13 16 10 11 17 10 10
14 Anton Lander 15 12 10 14 16 17 10 14 14
15 Marc-Olivier Roy
 16 19 17 15 14 13 12 16 18
16 Toni Rajala 12 15 14 16 15 15 20
 20
 19
17 David Musil 20
 16
 15 17 18
 17 18 17 15
18 Anton Slepyshev 17
 14 21
 19
 19
 20
 15
 15 17
19 Bogdan Yakimov 19 20
 20 18
 17 19 19 18
 12
20 Philip Larsen 18
 18 18
 20 21
 16
 14 19
 20
21 Brandon Davidson
 21 22 19
 21
 22 23 26 22 21
22 Mark Arcobello 22 24
 22
 24 24
 21 27 23
 23
23 Erik Gustafsson 23 21 26 23
 23
 27 25 26 22
24 Olivier Roy
 25
 26 29 22 27 29 21 21 25
25 Tyler Pitlick 27 23 23 32
 29
 31
 24 24 27
26 Jackson Houck 26 25 27 27 26 24 23 27 39
27 Andrew Miller 24 29 24 25 32 22
 30
 29
 30
28 John McCarron 32 33 31
 26
 20
 33
 35
 30 29
29 Daniil Zharkov
 30
 28 28
 29 25 40
 28 25 37
30 Greg Chase
 28 30 30 33 42 26
 31
 28 24
31 Brad Hunt 33 35 35 28 33
 25
 33
 35 32
32 Joey Laleggia 29
 38 39 35
 31 32 36
 37 28
33 Lee Moffie 35 40
 42
 31 28 38 32 31
 31
34 Kyle Platzer
 36 37
 38 34 37 34 29
 32 33
35 Frans Tuohimaa 31 27
 40
 38 35 30
 43
 43
 26
36 Travis Ewanyk 40
 34
 34
 46 34
 41
 22 33
 35
37 Mitch Moroz 38 36 25
 44
 44
 28
 34 36 36
38 Tyler Bunz 34 32 36 30 38
 44 37 34 38
39 Curtis Hamilton 39 31 32 36 30 37 41 39 43
40 Ryan Martindale 41 39 41 37 36 36 38 38 45
41 Kale Kessy
 42 41 33 39 45 39 40 42 34
42 Aidan Muir
 43 46 37 41
 39
 43
 39
 40 40
43 Evan Campbell
 37
 44 43 40
 40 35 45 44 44
44 Ben Betker
 45 47 44
 42
 41 42
 42 41 41
45 Kellen Jones
 44 45 46
 43
 43 46
 46 45 42
46 Antti Tyrvainen
 46 42 45
 45
 46 45 44 46 46
47 Cameron Abney 47 43 47 47 47 47 47 47 47

As always, I'm interested in hearing about where you think any one of us went wrong, and to get that conversation started, I'll list a few of the more distinctive rankings from each of our panelists.

Notables Inside the Top 25:

Alan: Andrew Miller (24)
Ben: Jackson Houck (25)
Bruce: Andrew Miller (24), Mitch Moroz (25)
DB: Andrew Miller (25)
Derek: John McCarron (20), Daniil Zharkov (25)
Jon: Andrew Miller (22), Jackson Houck (24), Brad Hunt (25)
Michael: Travis Ewanyk (22), Jackson Houck (23)
Ryan: Daniil Zharkov (25)
Scott: Greg Chase (24)

Notables Outside the Top 25:

Alan: Tyler Pitlick (27)
Ben: Olivier Roy (26)
Bruce: Erik Gustafsson (26), Olivier Roy (29)
DB: Tyler Pitlick (32)
Derek: Olivier Roy (27), Tyler Pitlick (29)
Jon: Erik Gustafsson (27), Olivier Roy (29), Tyler Pitlick (31)
Michael: Brandon Davidson (26), Mark Arcobello (27),
Ryan: Erik Gustafsson (26),
Scott: Tyler Pitlick (27)

"Interesting" Rankings:

Alan: Toni Rajala (12) and Martin Gernat (14)
Ben: Sam Gagner (4) and Cameron Abney (43)
Bruce: Anton Slepyshev (21) and Mitch Moroz (25)
DB: Martin Gernat (9) and Oscar Klefbom (11)
Derek: The Top Seven and John McCarron (20)
Jon: Brad Hunt (25) and Daniil Zharkov (40)
Michael: Philip Larsen (14) and Travis Ewanyk (22)
Ryan: Justin Schultz (3) and Frans Tuohimaa (43)
Scott: Darnell Nurse (5) and Jackson Houck (39)

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