Toronto Maple Leafs Need Young Players to Step Up in 2023-24

The Toronto Maple Leafs will have to develop a few prospects if they want to ever win the Stanley Cup.

If you can criticize the Toronto Maple Leafs for anything under the stewardship of Brendan Shanahan dating back to the end of the Dave Nonis Era, it’s failing to develop any star players outside the top ten in the draft.

In a salary cap league, you simply have to have contributions from players on entry-level deals or you will never be able to ice a winner. The Leafs had a great team this past year, but imagine how good they would have been if they had even one league-minimum player contributing?

Outside of Michael Bunting (whose value was astounding the last two seasons) the Leafs didn’t…