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I'm liking what I'm seeing from Rosen and Borgman, Dermott as well. I wouldn't mind TO starting the season with 2 of them rather than Hainsey and Marincin.

The Marlies have been on TSN lately, they've aired 3 games and plan on airing 6 more. http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-marlies/2017/2/10/14562826/toronto-marlies-games-airing-on-tsn-beginning-this-weekend-kasperi-kapanen Here's the schedule.

I see TO has 3 of the top 16 in the OHL scoring race: Bracco at #8, 37gp-60pts Piccinich at #14, 45gp-53pts Korostelev at #16, 42gp-52pts

Babs, like RC, is into putting a line together based on the attributes of 2 players with the 3rd being a complementary but not necessarily identical type of player. An example of this might be the Kadri line with Kadri and Komarov being defensively responsible with Nylander who isn't that great defensively but sure helps make the line more effective outside of the d zone. Bracco might end up being a tweener or a talent that's best used on perhaps the 3rd line as offensive depth. This would be a best case scenario as TO has a similar type of player on the Marlies in Griffiths.

I think Bracco is more an E-W type of skater rather than N-S, good on his edges but skating is one of the reasons he didn't go high in his draft year.

With Kasper on LTIR, it looks like Leipsic is TO's current healthy #1 prospect. http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-marlies/2017/1/20/14335342/toronto-marlies-beat-hartford-wolf-pack-7-4 I sure would like to know why they were scratched, I had great hopes that these 2 would at some time make the Leafs.