2025 T25U25: Week 3 Summary

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There was another tie in the vote, so six players were revealed again as we counted up from 16 to 11.

Official Vote

16 Artur Akhtyamov

With a weighted average ranking of 16.7, Akhtyamov was a substantial 1.5 ranking points above the three nearly tied players who finished off last week's list. He's also the first person ranked by all 10 official voters and the first goalie on the official list.

15 Luke Haymes

Newly signed NCAA grad, Haymes came in at an average of 16, so very close to Akhtyamov. He was not universally ranked.

14 Borya Valis

CHL free agent signing Valis was the next player to get 10 votes and he came so close to a tie with Haymes at 15.9 in average ranking.

13 Jacob Quillan

A player that is much like Haymes, only a year older, Quillan had and average of 12.8, marking the major break in the official list. This is the biggest jump in rankings and effectively splits the list into a top 13 and two closely ranked tiers of players below that. Everyone from Quillan on up is universally ranked.

This is a very unusual spot to have consensus coalesce around a group of players. There is far from total agreement about the order of these players, but the spread in votes for most of them is in the five to 10 range.

11 Noah Chadwick & Miroslav Holinka

Tied at #11, Chadwick and Holinka were ranked at 12.1, barely above Quillan.

Next week we'll see the five more players (and another tie), and the largest jump in ranking to come is 1.6.

Community Vote

The vote starts off with a player ranked almost in the same spot on the Official Vote

16 Luke Haymes

With a weighted average ranking of 17.78, Haymes is over a full ranking point up from Topi Niemelä

He's ranked fairly universally – 24 voters marked him N/A.

15 Miroslav Holinka

Also in a very similar spot on both lists, Holinka is over two ranking points above Haymes at 15.44. This jump is similar to the one on the official list, but there are two more to come in the Community Vote, with much tighter clumping up of votes in between.

14 Noah Chadwick

The two votes are now starting to really converge with another player ranked nearly the same. His average was 15.4, a virtual tie with Holinka. That... sounds familiar.

The number of N/A rankings has descended into the noise region of the vote, and we can consider these two universally ranked.

13 William Villeneuve

Ranked higher on this vote, but not by a lot, his average was 15.35, another virtual tie.

We'll find out this season on the Marlies if these two defenders really are this close in value.

12 Cade Webber

Ranked at 15.3 Webber, another defender in the AHL, is also virtually tied with the last three ranked.

However, he has more serious down-voting than anyone else, offset by some noise of high votes (older players are at the top unless you move them).

11 Tinus Luc Koblar

It is a tradition that newly drafted players from the higher rounds rank lower on the Community Vote than the Official Vote, and so it is again. TLK came in at 14.72, marking a very small jump up from Webber.

His noise is at the bottom end as the second youngest player on the list, some voters just left him at 37.

And that's it for the summary this week, next week we're into the top 10 and we'll see two big jumps on the Community Vote and several small ones on the Official Vote. It's mostly the same 10 people on each list now.

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