This weekend marks the return of Leafs hockey! Well, sort of.

It's the annual Rookie Tournament, or Prospect Showdown, or Hockey Carnival, whatever it is called now I don't remember. I've been doing this so long I recall it changes names almost every year now. What matters is young prospects some signed and some not will play in Leafs jerseys and we get to watch!

How do we watch? Well... that's a good question. These will be streamed by the teams, but the logistics of where you go for that and how good those streams will be is an open question. Hopefully it's YouTube, but we might be stuck with an in-house production using a potato cam.

What's more important is we can watch them play and make absolutely wild judgments about how good they are based on the very small sample sizes!

Here's some of the group doing media on Friday.

The schedule is as follows (times are ET):
Saturday 6:00 p.m.: Leafs @ Senators
Sunday 1:00 p.m.: Leafs @ Jets

Other News

There was a small update on the status of Max Domi.

What about Bob?

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There was another wacky OHL trade last night where the Sudbury Wolves acquired the rights to top major junior prospect Tanner Adams in exchange for ALL THE DRAFT PICKS!

If you want to know the genesis of this you can read this article here.

OHL top prospect Tanner Adams, family want him in Sudbury, agent says
Despite his selection by Brampton last weekend, the Porcupine product hopes to play for the Wolves and be closer to home
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And a happy retirement to a Maple Leafs legend.

He's not the only one.

Finally, here's an interesting video on the business side of the PWHL. Scripps Sports has signed a TV rights deal with the league and further announced the first ever PWHL All-Star game will be this coming season in Toronto.

Enjoy your weekend and be ready for the GDT tonight!

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