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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 

On 1/21/2017 at 7:36 PM, jammer2 said:

 

 He does pivot nicely, but yeah, you gotta have good north/south speed in the NHL, at least in the top 6. If Bracco does not play in the top 6, he is probably a career AHL guy, cause he's a classic tweener, don't see him fitting on the bottom at all.

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.

4 hours ago, jammer2 said:

 

 At least the Leafs have the sense to put prospects in the top 6, they already know what Mihaleck and Greening can do. Leafs 2nd rounder Jeremy Bracco just got dealt to my hometown Spits. He's got good hands, thinks the game ok, but don't know if he can skate at the NHL level.

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.

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after two games with both Viktor Loov and Rinat Valiev scratched (no explanation has been given), they made some other moves.

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.