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Top 20 Young Leafs
We here at EditorInLeaf are always trying to come up with new ways of keeping you, LeafsNation entertained and informed. In regards to that, we’ve been working on something special for awhile for you…
EditorInLeaf’s 1st Annual Top20 Young Leafs.
Scouts mostly agree that you don’t really know what kind of impact a player will have until he plays 250 games in the league, or just over 3 full seasons. Following that thought process, the writers here at EditorInLeaf.com have each voted for our top young Leaf players following that 250 game played cap as well as an age limit of 24 by the start of the season (so no Kadri) as our only rules. We’ve each ranked all 39 eligible players from 1 to 20, with a 1st place vote being assigned 20 points, a second place vote being assigned 19 points, etc.
We then added up each of our individual lists and the points given to each player and came up with the official final Top 20 rankings. To keep things consistent all player information and stats come from eliteprospects.com, unless otherwise mentioned.
If you’d like a full break down check out the Intro piece we put out last week here.
In today’s piece we finally kick off our long-awaited Top 20 Young Leafs official rankings! With a bang, we start at the bottom of our list, here comes No.16-20 of the best young players our beloved Leafs have to offer.
Keep in mind this ranking is by no means the be-all-and-end-all of prospect rankings and is meant purely to help pass the time until training camp and hockey related news starts kicking back up into gear, and maybe serve to enlighten you on just how far the Leafs pipeline of young talent has come and what to expect from them.
*rankings were taken from staff members prior to the departure of Robb and David. The departed staff members contributions remain in the rankings for weighting purposes and variance.
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