Feb 10, 2015; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; An ice resurfacer clears the ice before the Toronto Maple Leafs game against the New York Rangers at Air Canada Centre. Mandatory Credit: Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports
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 a while for you…
EditorInLeaf’s 1st Annual Top 20 Young Toronto Maple 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.
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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 final Top20 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, see it here.
Last week we broke down our Top 20 Young Leafs ranked 16-20 which you can check out here.
For a quick recap here is how our list stands so far:
No.20 – Richard Panik
No.19 – Carter Verhaeghe
No.18 – Andreas Johnson
No.17 – Casey Bailey
No.16 – Martin Marincin
In today’s piece we tackle the next grouping on our Top 20 Young Leafs official rankings, Ranks 11-15!
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 Toronto Maple Leafs pipeline of young talent has come and what to expect from them.
Next: Number 15