The all ex-Toronto Maple Leafs exposed player team

In my grand tradition of making teams based on Maple Leafs who are no longer Maple Leafs, I bring you the best team I could make from picking only ex-Maple Leafs that have been exposed in the expansion draft. Thanks to Katya and GunnerCarlsson for doing the work of collecting these names, and letting me have all the fun.

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I’m going to pick 13 forwards, 7 defense, and 3 goalies. Positions came from Hockey DB so don’t @ me if I mislabeled someone. You’re expecting too much research to be done for this other wise. Some C’s were picked and moved to LW because there wasn’t a lot of LW’s to grab

Here is my team:

Forwards

There weren’t a low of LW’s available, and a couple C’s were better and I didn’t want to pass them up.

Michael Grabner is probably the best pick to play now, and Byron Froese is a good prospect for the future. Kulemin, Versteeg, Stajan are there because..well, choices.

Defense

Carl Gunnarson is the best D on the team, and Cody Franson, who a few Leafs fans want back, is also up there. JM Liles is an okay middle pair guy for this team, and the bottom pair both come from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Frank Corrado is assigned to the press box for old times sake.

Goalies

I also could have picked Jonas Gustavsson as the spare. What is it with the Maple Leafs and names that start with J?

The goaltending isn’t as bad as I thought, but Enroth, man, was not a good back up, but maybe he will be in this made up universe?

Below you can find the full list of exposed former Leafs, Marlies, and picks. Could you build a better team? Share one in the comments.

Exposed ex-Maple Leafs