The Toronto Maple Leafs roster features an unusual amount of home-grown talent, most of it extremely young, and that is what makes this team so special.
To me, there’s something to be said about drafting and building your team rather than just assembling a bunch of free-agents.
The Miami Heat super-teams, or the New York Yankees – those are basically hollowed out, paid for fantasies that don’t have the value and meaning of building a team the classic way.
Some probably don’t care about the distinction, but I do.
Toronto Maple Leafs Homegrown Talent
The Toronto Maple Leafs have Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, and William Nylander.