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Looking at the victorious championship runs of both Artur Akhtyamov in the VHL, and Nikita Grebyonkin in the KHL, and talking about their next steps in Toronto's system.

Another playoff round completed, let's once again check in on Toronto's various prospects who have been performing in their respective league's playoffs. At this point, some of them are at the end game in the finals!

The Toronto Maple Leafs brought back one of the OG Large Adult Sons from the before times: Nicolas Mattinen. They also signed undrafted free agent Chas Sharpe to an AHL contract.

Checking in on Toronto's prospects in the playoffs, including those who have advanced to the next round and the one that was eliminated.

Looking at Toronto's latest prospect that was signed as an NCAA free agent out of Quinnipiac. Hope Brad also included a signing bonus so he can buy an apology gift to Matt Knies!

We're a week into the start of the CHL playoffs and NCAA tournament, with the bulk of games happening over the Easter weekend.

Get a quick update on 15 of Toronto's prospects who finished their regular seasons this weekend or whose playoffs have already started.

Nikita Grebyonkin made his KHL playoff debut for Metallurg, who beat the 8th seed in a 4-2 series win. Grebyonkin led his team's forwards in ice time and had 4 points in 6 games.

The Toronto Maple Leafs eke out a narrow 4-3 win in the shootout. Big game from the Tavares line and Samsonov.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have swung a trade with Anaheim, with Carolina filling the third party role for double retention. They bring back Ilya Lybushkin as a right shot defenseman.

As of Monday, the KHL's regular season is over. That means Nikita Grebyonkin has finished his first full KHL season, and we have a pretty large sample of his games and stats to talk about.

The Toronto Maple Leafs faced the St Louis Blues in the early afternoon this Family Day, and hung on despite a late push by the Blues to win 4-2.

Looking at some prospects who seem more likely to wind up being mid or late round picks that could be interesting options for the Maple Leafs.

It's the mid-season break, so what the hell are we gonna talk about? How about a mid-season Prospect Pyramid where I put Toronto's best kids into tiers based on their performance and projection.

Checking in on Fraser Minten's season and development as one of Toronto's top prospects.

Easton Cowan is an extremely awesome player. I've had a lot of fun watching him explode in the OHL, and by the amount of engagement I've been getting when tweeting highlights of his I can tell the rest of Toronto's fandom has as well.

Checking in on the progress of defense prospect Noah Chadwick and how he's been developing.

Looking at Bob McKenzie's mid-season ranking update that just dropped, and talking about my favourite prospects who look like they could be available to Toronto.

Checking in on Toronto's Russian all-star prospect, Nikita Grebyonkin, and how he's been developing and improving in the KHL.

Writing shorter updates on four of Toronto's other prospects: Joe Miller, Mike Koster, Veeti Miettinen and Braeden Kressler.

Checking in on Nick Moldenhauer in his freshman NCAA season with the Michigan Wolverines.

Looking at some of the top performing prospects at the recent World Junior A Challenge from Canada, Sweden and the USA.

If you want to get more out of this year's World Juniors than just watching Minten and Cowan on Canada, keep an eye out for these seven prospects who will be eligible for this year's NHL draft!

'Twas the FTB before Christmas, when all through the blog not a creature was writing, not even for eggnog. The hyperlinks were set in the post with such care, despite knowing all the readers were gone and elsewhere.

In Torono's recent era of drafting – basically, since Shanahan took over – Toronto has been known to take re-entry prospects. Here are some of the top options that have emerged this year.