The Toronto Maple Leafs Have No Players at World Juniors

EDMONTON, AB - AUGUST 20: Players of Canada celebrate after winning the game against Finland in the IIHF World Junior Championship on August 20, 2022 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Photo by Andy Devlin/ Getty Images)

The Toronto Maple Leafs have had a short break for the holidays.

For some clubs, it meant saying goodbye and wishing their players or prospects luck as they linked up with their national team in Halifax, Nova Scotia or Moncton, New Brunswick. Not so for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

For the Leafs, the days off were just that. They don’t have any players in the 2022-23 World Junior Championships (WJC).

Some may be concerned that there is no one from the Maple Leafs…