2021 Toronto Maple Leafs Regular Season Forward Grades

Adam Brooks

He was OK in his 11 games and 100 minutes.  He scored 4 goals, which is almost certainly just good luck, but he deserves a shot at a full-time job. I’d rather watch him than a bunch of guys in their late thirties who get by on their names.

Grade: B+

Alex Galchenyuk

He has the talent to contribute, but he also makes blind passes in overtime and is partially why I’m not waiting another month to do this post.

Grade: C

Jimmy Vesey

Next.

Grade: F

Travis Boyd

For a while he was the next Hyman, and then  he wasn’t and now is never gonna be.

Grade: C

Alex Barabanov

I would have liked to seen what he could have done if given the chance to actually earn playing time. Unfortunately, the Leafs played a bunch of ex-stars with zero upside over him.

Grade: a Keefe-Assisted F  (not his fault at all)

Nick Foligno

Is there a grade lower than an F?  Cause if so, I’d like to give it out here.  What makes this so frustrating is I knew it was a terrible idea, but I bought into the hype.

Grade: F-

Petan, Robertson, Anderson, Agostino, Sabourin, Noseum and Nash

They receive incompletes, except for Nash who gets a F through no fault of his own.  If there was one thing I have ever been right about, it’s that you shouldn’t gift an injured player who has never played on your team a roster spot in the playoffs when he hasn’t played for six weeks, and even under the best of circumstances scores so little that his elite-level defense barely earns him a fourth line job.   I said that was a bad move from the outset, and for once, I was right.  What a garbage decision.

Those are the grades of your Toronto Maple Leafs forwards.  Look for management, goalie and defense grades in the coming days.