This season, the Maple Leafs were invited to compete for the 2019 Matthew Wuest Memorial Cup Championship at the Traverse City Prospect Tournament in Traverse City, Michigan.
The event begins Friday, September 6, and if you’re in the area, tickets are very inexpensive, and you’ll get to see a lot of top prospects.
The tournament encompasses eight teams, but they manage to get all of them in games and a cup awarded in just four days of playing with one off day. The format might be a good model for the NHL’s proposed World Cup reboot.