The Toronto Maple Leafs organization has drafted and developed a number of youngsters currently playing in the NHL (Auston Matthews, William Nylander, Morgan Rielly, Matthew Knies), but the club under former GM’s Kyle Dubas and Brad Treliving, and new GM John Chayka have had different ideas of what kind of prospects they wanted to populate the organization with.
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As we’ve done on a yearly basis, we will be ranking the club’s top prospects over the upcoming weeks based on their progress in either the NCAA, CHL, Europe, ECHL, or AHL, and their potential to make the Leafs roster and make a contribution in the future.
Players are eligible for the list if they have not played more than 82 NHL games and are 25 years old or younger:
Leafs Prospect List
- #50 – Blake Smith – D (Toronto – AHL)
- #49 – Henrik Rybinski – F (Hershey – AHL)
- #48 – Sawyer Boulton – F (Reading – ECHL, Lehigh Valley – AHL)
- #47 – Cole McWard – D (Bridgeport – AHL, NY Islanders – NHL)
- #46 – Rylan Fellinger – D (Flint – OHL)
- #45 – Sam Stevens – F (Cincinnati – ECHL, Toronto – AHL)
- #44 – Brody Pepoy – F (Saginaw – OHL)
- #43 – Matt Lahey – D (Michigan State – NCAA)
- #42 – Yaroslav Fedoseyev – D (Chelyabinsk Clemet – VHL, Chelyabinsk Traktor – KHL)
- #41 – Cade Webber – D (Toronto – AHL)
- #40 – Matthew Hlacar – F (Kitchener – OHL)
- #39 – Will Belle – RW (US Nat’l Development Program)
- #38 – Cooper Williams – C (Saskatoon – WHL)
- #37 – Patriks Plumins – G (Zemgale – Latvia)
- #36 – Chas Sharpe – D (Toronto – AHL)
- #35 – Hayes Hundley – D (St. Thomas – NCAA, Toronto – AHL)
- #34 – Hudson Malinoski – C (Providence – NCAA)
- #33 – Joe Miller – C (Harvard – NCAA)
- #32 – Juuso Ainasto – G (Jokerit Jr. – Finland)
- #31 – Semyon Der-Argushintsev – C (Chelyabinsk Traktor – KHL)
- #30 – Mans Gudmundsson – D (Farjestads Jr. – Sweden)
#29 – Landon Sim – RW (Toronto – AHL)
It often occurs that when clubs are watching over their own prospects, they see another player who intrigues them. The Leafs were keeping a watchful eye on first rounder Easton Cowan with the OHL London Knights to track his progress, and saw someone who at the absolute least could be a good add for their organizational depth.
During their 2025 run to the Memorial Cup, the Leafs signed Knights forward Landon Sim to a one-year AHL contract. The son of former NHLer Jon Sim was selected 184th overall by St. Louis in 2022 while former Leafs head coach Craig Berube was with the Blues. After two years without being signed, the feisty Sim returned to London as an overager and had a career-best 30 goals, averaged nearly a point per game, and compiled 105 penalty minutes.
His production was even better in the OHL playoffs and Memorial Cup, where he scored 12 goals in 17 games on the Knights’ championship run. While not the prototypical big body that Treliving usually opted for, the 5’11”, 175 lb. Sim has made it up for it with sandpaper and a willingness to drop the gloves. In his first pro season, the 21-year-old split time between ECHL Cincinnati and the AHL Marlies, scoring five goals in 31 games between the two squads, along with 75 penalty minutes. Before the Calder Cup Playoffs, Sim was signed to a two-year NHL entry-level deal.
The feisty forward was not in the lineup in the opening two rounds against Rochester and Laval, but was inserted in the third-round series against Cleveland, and played most of the Eastern Conference Final against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and the Calder Cup Final against Chicago. In 12 games, he scored a pair of goals and added an assist, as well as 47 penalty minutes. It is expected that Sim will play exclusively with the Marlies this season, and with championships at two levels under his belt, it is not out of the realm of possibility that he could eventually make the NHL as a fourth-liner down the road.
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