Welcome to part one of the Toronto Marlies Call-Up Power Rankings!
In case the title wasn’t self-explanatory enough already, I will be ranking every Marlie over the next few days on their current standing in regards to an NHL promotion. To accomplish this, each player will be judged based on specific criteria:
- Contract status; i.e, players signed to an NHL deal will rank higher than those of otherwise equally deserving merit due to their contracts being applicable at the level above.
- Performance this season.
- Immediate positional need on the Leafs.
- Likelihood they are actually used by Mike Babcock and not sentenced to the press box for eternity.