Maple Leafs Prospects

Drafted 7th overall in 2009 Nazem Kadri has yet to make himself an every day NHLer. Coming in to 2012-13 it's unclear where he fits into a Leafs lineup that includes Phil Kessel, Joffrey Lupul, James van Riemsdyk, Mikhail Grabovski, Clarke MacArthur and Nikolai Kulemin. Every Leafs fan

Petter Granberg from Sweden enter the PPP rankings at 22 after two years in the Swedish Elitserien

Spencer Abbott is the latest undrafted player from the NCAA to join the Maple Leafs and he comes in at 23.

An undrafted free agent, Greg Scott has worked his way into the top 25 prospects in the Leafs' organization.

Andrew Crescenzi makes a surprise appearance in the Maple Leafs' top 25 top prospects at 25.

A look at the forwards in the Maple Leafs' system that just missed out on being ranked in the top 25. One of them made it. Which one?

A look at the borderline defencemen that are looking to crack the top 25.

The Maple Leafs' system has a number of coke machines in its ranks. Which of these made our top 25 rankings?

Welcome back to PPP's Top 25 Under 25. Anyone who's been around the SBN community for a period of time should be familiar with the Top 25 Under 25 (the Edmonton blog Copper & Blue has just recently started its summer edition); in this feature, we

With the fifth overall pick in the 2012 NHL Draft the Toronto Maple Leafs selected Morgan "I before E, except after C" Rielly from the Moose Jaw Warriors of the WHL. This pick adds another young defenceman to a stable that includes Jesse Blacker, Jake Gardiner, Carl Gunnarsson,

The Toronto Maple Leafs used their last selection - 209th overall - in the 2012 NHL Draft to select the slightly older and slightly more experienced 19 year old Viktor Lööv of Södertälje SK in the Swedish Allsvenskan (2nd division). He's touted as a balanced two-way defender with

With their second selection of the sixth round, the Toronto Maple Leafs chose Ryan Rupert, a 5'10", 180 lb centre from the London Knights of the OHL. After a sophomore season that saw him post 17 goals and 48 points in 63 regular season games, followed by

The Toronto Maple Leafs used their sixth round pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft to select Connor Brown from the Erie Otters of the OHL. I'm normally one of the first people to disdain the use of +/- as an individual statistic to track hockey players but

The Toronto Maple Leafs used their fifth round selection to pick Dominic Toninato in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Toninato is a 6", 161 lb. left handed centre from Duluth, Minnesota who has been primarily playing high school hockey to this point in his career. He was selected by

There is no surprise as Phil Kessel tops our ranking of the Maple Leafs' top 25 prospects.

Jake Gardiner makes his debut after arriving from Anaheim as the Leafs' 2nd highest ranked prospect.

When I finally got a chance to sit down and write about James Reimer (which I apologize for it taking so long), two questions kept coming up. The first; is #3 too high of a ranking for Reimer? While his statistics have been an improvement over the level of goaltending

Four seasons into Luke Schenn's career, what do we know? We know that he probably provides more offensive upside than Leaf fans expected when he was drafted 5th overall in 2008. Without the benefit of virtually any time on the powerplay, Schenn has incrementally improved from 14 to

It's very hard to classify a team as the "loser" in a trade that eventually wins them the Stanley Cup. I mean, the goal of all 30 NHL teams each year is to hoist the Cup at the end of the season. Teams that are truly

My earliest memories of the Maple Leafs are from the Wendel Clark/Doug Gilmour/Pat Burns era. So that's just shy of 20 years of watching the Leafs, a passion that has grown every day. So the following statement is not said lightly. In almost 20 years of

Even though this is our first instalment of the Top 25 Under 25 series, I feel pretty confident in saying that doing rankings during the middle of the season can be a tough task. Already during this countdown, we've had one member of the team be traded out

We've reached a point in the Countdown where background information on the player isn't required at the same level as before. The top 8 should all be pretty familiar to everyone reading these final profiles. The players that are left are all players that have been

As we close in on the conclusion to our list of the Top 25 Maple Leafs under 26 years old, now seems like a good time to get the input of you, the PPP community. Tomorrow the series will resume with #8, and will hopefully continue on without any more

At the start of the Top 25 Under 25 series, I dug up a quote from Assistant GM Dave Nonis. The quote, from this past September, was talking about the necessity, as an organization, to always have prospects in the system, constantly challenging for jobs at the NHL level. Nowhere

Almost two years ago, Brian Burke announced two trades that came as an absolute shock to everyone around the league, and took a major step forward in transforming the Toronto Maple Leafs. In one deal with Anaheim, he shipped much maligned goaltender Vesa Toskala and forward Jason Blake out of