Brian S
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2025 NHL Draft: September Watch List
Bob McKenzie's first ranking of the season just dropped, and it's time for me to ignore everyone on it to see who the unnamed players are that could wind up as second rounders.
Maple Leafs Prospect Report: Early Victor Johansson Thoughts
Toronto's most curious prospect from the 2024 draft has begun his season in Sweden, and it's time to talk about how he's looked early on.
Maple Leafs Prospect Report: Rookie Tournament Standouts
Thoughts about Toronto's various prospects that played this weekend in Montreal, from the top picks to the free agents.
Maple Leafs release their Prospect Showdown roster
Minten and Cowan headline their prospect tournament squad against the Montreal Canadiens this coming weekend.
2024 T25U25: Easton Cowan is #2
There were many questions asked about Cowan when he was picked, and he answered all of them and more definitively. His time anywhere other than #1 on our rankings is short.
2024 T25U25: Ben Danford is #5
Toronto's latest top draft pick makes his debut in our top five, but it's up to you to decide if that says more about him or the state of their prospect depth.
2024 T25U25: Miroslav Holinka is #9
One of Toronto's newest prospects seems like their biggest swing on upside and skill from the most recent draft, and debuts very high on our rankings this year as a result.
2024 T25U25: Jacob Quillan is #17
One of the newer prospects to join the organization as an NCAA free agent makes his debut in our Top 25 Under 25 series.
2024 T25U25: Ty Voit is #18
Everything that could have gone wrong for Ty Voit last season, did go wrong. Now he's hoping to make a comeback and salvage his chances at an NHL career.
2024 T25U25: Hudson Malinoski is #25
Kicking off this year's T25U25 rankings is Hudson Malinoski, the center playing in the NCAA who has some two-way potential but not a lot of exciting offensive impacts so far.
Early Thoughts on Toronto's 2024 Draft Picks
The draft and development camp is in the rear view mirror now, and I've finally finished writing profiles for all of Toronto's picks. I have some miscellaneous thoughts based around the draft that I want to share before moving on to the next season.
Getting to Know Victor Johansson
Toronto's fourth round pick was one of the biggest mystery picks in the 2024 draft, given how few people knew anything about him and how there were no scouting reports from any outlet. I looked into him as much as I could
Getting to Know Sam McCue
Looking at one of Toronto's newest forward prospects, Sam McCue. He was drafted in the 7th round and will be a particular kind of player, but can he make the NHL?
Standouts from Toronto's 2024 development camp
With the 2024 summer development camp for Toronto's prospects and free agent invites done, I look back at the exhibition game and the news, press conferences and interviews from last week to talk about who stood out the most.
Getting to Know Matthew Lahey
Lahey is a hulking 6'5" defenseman who gets strong reviews for his defensive play and mobility. Let's look at his highlights and scouting reports to see if we can get an idea for how well he projects to the NHL.
Getting to Know Nathan Mayes
Looking at the highlights, scouting reports, and game video of Toronto's latest hulking defensemen drafted out of Spokane in the 7th round of the 2024 NHL draft.
Getting to Know Timofei Obvintsev
Toronto's newest goalie prospect seemingly follows a new tradition for drafting relatively obscure, re-entry netminders out of Russia. Seems to have worked out just fine with Akhtyamov, but have they caught lightning in a bottle twice?
Scouting Reports on Toronto's 2024 Development Camp Roster
Toronto invited 22 prospects to their July 2024 development camp who are free agents. I'm looking at them all to see who could be interesting as potential future signing or draft targets.
Getting to Know Miroslav Holinka
Taking a look at the scouting reports and highlights of Toronto's fifth round pick out of Czechia, 6'1" center with great hands and a good shot: Miroslav Holinka. He may have struggled to make it in the Czech pro league this year, but we may be seeing him up and close sooner rather than later.
Maple Leafs release their Development Camp roster
Toronto has released the full roster of their own prospects and 22 undrafted, unsigned free agent prospects attending their camp from July 3rd-7th.
Getting to Know Alexander Plesovskikh
Toronto's 5th round pick out of Russia was one of many late-rounders they picked that scratched a lot of heads, since not many people had ever heard of him much less seen him. Well, now I've watched 6 of his games and I'm sharing what I saw and what scouting reports I've found.
2024 Draft: Leafs select Sam McCue with pick 216
With the 216th overall in the seventh round of the 2024 draft, the Maple Leafs selected Sam McCue from Owen Sound in the OHL. He is the younger brother of Easton Cowan's teammate in London, Max McCue.
Younger McCue is a late 2005 birthday, with a above average