Tinus Luc Koblar, who played in the SHL last year on a team that was relegated to Allsvenskan, signed a new contract this summer in Sweden to play for Rögle this season after his standout performance for Norway at the World Championships. The Maple Leafs signed him to an ELC. and he came to Toronto for the post-draft development camp skate where he immediately centred Gavin McKenna.

Today is not TLK day in the T25, though, since we're only up to number 19 and he will come much later. So much later that he will be back in Toronto by the time we're debating how high we should have ranked him.

He is training with Rögle and yesterday he played a preseason game where he definitely didn't get any goals (although he set up a nice scoring chance in the very boring, very bad first half). The official results seem to have vanished and who scored the second-half goals after I'd given up on hockey in August are a mystery.

Suffice it to say, everyone was very bad and it looked like preseason in the worst way.

Per a report in the Swedish press, he will suit up for one more preseason game a week from now, and then he'll return home for a short time before coming back to Toronto. He is slated to join the rookie tournament in Gatineau that plays two games on September 12 and 13, and then he is joining the Leafs main training camp.

What he wants out of training camp is an NHL roster spot. He has said that if he does not make the team, he will return to Rögle, that he will not play in the AHL. I believe (but am not absolutely sure) that because the contract he signed in Sweden came post-draft, he is eligible for the AHL, and the Swedish team does not have the right to block that as they would if he had been drafted from that team. However, the statement that he will not play in the AHL has come multiple times.

From the report yesterday:

Toronto believes that I will succeed in taking a place, with the way I played last season and what I did in the World Cup. That's why I'm going to the main camp as well, says Koblar to Helsingborgs Dagblad.

It's good to have a goal to aim for, but I think it's extremely unlikely that he will take an NHL roster spot permanently. The Leafs have a lot of forwards under contract, and the ice time Koblar would get in Rögle would exceed even what he could demand in the AHL far less the NHL. He needs to be a big wow to join the Leafs now.

Buy stuff.... just you know, later.

Morgan Rielly at the Hockey Night in Brampton fundraiser:

‘Great things ahead’: Rielly grateful to remain with Leafs after summer of speculation
After a summer full of speculation about his future, does Morgan Rielly expect to return for a 14th season with the Maple Leafs? “I mean, that’s what I would expect, yeah,” the 32-year-old defenceman said during a media availability at the Hockey Night in Brampton charity event on Wednesday, Mark Masters writes.
TSNMark Masters

It's a full text recap of his comments, so you can read it in full.

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