Leafs Prospect Update – January 28

by Blue Chip Prospects on January 28, 2013 in Prospect Updates - 324 Comments

After being away from his teammates for both the World Junior Championships and the Leafs‘ pre-season camp, Morgan Rielly returned to Moose Jaw and the Warriors returned to the win column for the first time since his departure.

In three games this weekend, Rielly picked up three assists and Moose Jaw was able to score a pair of wins.  For those of you hoping, as I am, for Rielly to join the Marlies in the AHL playoffs, don’t fret; the Warriors are still 10 points behind 8th place Saskatoon who also have 3 games in hand on Moose Jaw.  The chances of this team make the playoffs are slim so an extended stay in the AHL is almost certainly in the cards for Rielly.

In contrast to Rielly, Josh Leivo and his Kitchener Rangers look to be headed toward an extended playoff run in the OHL.  Since being traded from Sudbury to Kitchener, Leivo has continued to put up better than a point per game.  Unsurprisingly, his goal production has taken a bit of a dip as he hasn’t been expected to carry the offensive load with the Rangers to the same extent as he was with the Wolves but he’s still managed 3 goals and 8 assists in 10 games with Kitchener.  Leivo currently sits 16th in OHL scoring and is one of the better defensive forwards in the OHL to boot.

Erie Otters forward Connor Brown continues to put up points and sits 10th in OHL scoring in his draft+1 season.  He’s had some pretty creative assists in the games that I’ve seen and his passing might just be the attribute he’ll rely on at the pro level.  His goal totals are inflated by a pretty spectacular 14 powerplay goals and I’m not sure how sustainable those kind of totals will be for him moving forward.  Suffice to say, he and the other Connor (McDavid) have developed some solid chemistry and I’d expect that as McDavid moves from ‘good player’ to ‘OHL Superstar’ that Brown could easily find himself even higher on the list next season.

Matt Finn continues to struggle with a bout of mono that forced him to miss time earlier in the year and has been out of the lineup for the last 10 days.  It’s pretty impressive that he’s been able to play as well as he has in the interim despite the illness.  Hopefully he’ll be able to permanently shake it soon and get back to the level he was playing at early in the season where he was among the OHL’s leading scorers among defensemen while playing in every situation.

Maple Leafs Prospect Regular Season Stats

Name	Age	League/Team	Position	GP	Goals	Assists	Points
		AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE
Joe Colborne	22	AHL - Marlies	Forward	65	14	28	42
Carter Ashton	21	AHL - Marlies	Forward	53	11	8	19
Jerry D'Amigo	21	AHL - Marlies	Forward	65	16	11	27
Greg McKegg	20	AHL - Marlies	Forward	55	7	14	21
Kenny Ryan	21	AHL - Marlies	Forward	53	9	11	20
Brad Ross	20	AHL - Marlies	Forward	34	7	2	9
David Broll	20	AHL - Marlies	Forward	1	0	0	0
Spencer Abbott	24	AHL - Marlies	Forward	51	11	19	30
Jesse Blacker	21	AHL - Marlies	Defenceman	57	4	7	11
Jake Gardiner(X)	22	AHL - Marlies	Defenceman	43	10	21	31
Simon Gysbers	25	AHL - Marlies	Defenceman	52	4	12	16
Morgan Rielly	19	AHL - Marlies	Defenceman	9	1	1	2
Stuart Percy	19	AHL - Marlies	Defenceman	1	1	0	1
Andrew MacWilliam	23	AHL - Marlies	Defenceman	-	-	-	-
Andrew Crescenzi	20	AHL - Marlies ECHL - San Francisco	Forward	15 23	1 3	1 11	2 14
Jamie Devane	21	AHL - Marlies ECHL - San Francisco	Forward	18 12	2 1	3 0	5 1
Tyler Brenner	24	ECHL - Bakersfield ECHL - Toledo	Forward	32 21	8 2	13 4	21 6
Sam Carrick	20	AHL - Marlies ECHL - Idaho	Forward	14 49	2 15	2 21	4 36
Tyler Biggs	19	AHL - Marlies	Forward	-	-	-	-
		CANADIAN HOCKEY LEAGUE
Josh Leivo	19	OHL - Sudbury/Kitchener	Forward	63	29	44	73
Tyler Biggs	19	OHL - Oshawa	Forward	60	26	27	53
Connor Brown	18	OHL - Erie	Forward	63	28	41	69
Ryan Rupert	18	OHL - London	Forward	54	11	35	46
David Broll	19	OHL - Sault Ste. Marie	Forward	67	17	37	54
Stuart Percy	19	OHL - Mississauga	Defenceman	68	13	32	45
Matt Finn	18	OHL - Guelph	Defenceman	41	11	20	31
Morgan Rielly	18	WHL - Moose Jaw	Defenceman	60	12	42	54
		AMERICAN COLLEGE/JR HOCKEY
Tony Cameranesi	19	WCHA - Minnesota Duluth	Forward	38	14	20	34
Dominic Toninato	18	USHL - Fargo	Forward	62	29	41	70
Eric Knodel	22	NCAA - New Hampshire	Defenceman	38	10	11	21
Dennis Robertson	21	ECAC - Brown	Defenceman	36	3	17	20
Max Everson	19	ECAC - Harvard USHL - Omaha	Defenceman	7 16	0 1	2 4	2 5
Andrew MacWilliam	23	NCAA - North Dakota	Defenceman	41	2	11	13
		SWEDISH ICE HOCKEY
Petter Granberg	20	SEL - Skellefteå	Defenceman	13	0	0	0
Tom Nilsson	19	Allsvenskan - Mora	Defenceman	42	1	3	4
Viktor Loov	19	Allsvenskan - Södertälje	Defenceman	40	2	6	8

Maple Leafs Goalie Prospect Stats

Name	Age	League	GP	W	L	SOL/OTL	SV%	GAA	SO
Jussi Rynnas	25	AHL - Marlies	21	10	9	1	.908	2.63	3
Mark Owuya	23	AHL - Marlies ECHL - Las Vegas ECHL - Reading	11 6 1	4 3 1	5 3 0	1 0 0	.883 .904 .964	3.22 2.97 1.00
Garret Sparks	19	OHL - Guelph OHL - Guelph (Playoffs)	60 5	36 1	17 4	4 -	.917 .920	2.65 3.05	7

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