Egor Korshkov has always occupied a weird place in the hearts and minds of Leafs fans. Taken with a second round pick back in 2016 as a 19 year old (who turned 20 a couple of weeks after the draft), Leaf fans were a mix of perplexed and angry at the choice. Perplexed, because he was older and just finished his first full year in the KHL, so he was a relative unknown. And angry because he wasn’t Alex DeBrincat, who fell to Chicago at 39th overall.
Since then he’s remained a bit of a mystery as he remained in Russia, showing modest improvements every year but lacking eye-popping boxscore numbers to get any hype.