Maple Leafs' Top 25 Under 25: 2013 Off-season In Review

Another look back at a previous version of our countdown.The third edition of the countdown, completed in the wake of the disastrous 2013 off-season, definitely had a more sombre and cynical tone to it.

I'll fully admit; I wasn't happy with the team's direction at the time, and I and many others who voted (expanded to nine voters this time) were fairly pessimistic about the crop of under-25 players the Leafs had to offer (reminder this was around the time Darren Dreger would repeatedly crow about how this was among the "youngest teams in the league").

As it turns out, I think our cynicism was largely warranted. Enough touchdown dances have been performed on Dave Nonis' tenure as Leafs GM, but…