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The Toronto Maple Leafs faced the St Louis Blues in the early afternoon this Family Day, and hung on despite a late push by the Blues to win 4-2.

Looking at some prospects who seem more likely to wind up being mid or late round picks that could be interesting options for the Maple Leafs.

It's the mid-season break, so what the hell are we gonna talk about? How about a mid-season Prospect Pyramid where I put Toronto's best kids into tiers based on their performance and projection.

Checking in on Fraser Minten's season and development as one of Toronto's top prospects.

Easton Cowan is an extremely awesome player. I've had a lot of fun watching him explode in the OHL, and by the amount of engagement I've been getting when tweeting highlights of his I can tell the rest of Toronto's fandom has as well.

Checking in on the progress of defense prospect Noah Chadwick and how he's been developing.

Looking at Bob McKenzie's mid-season ranking update that just dropped, and talking about my favourite prospects who look like they could be available to Toronto.

Checking in on Toronto's Russian all-star prospect, Nikita Grebyonkin, and how he's been developing and improving in the KHL.

Writing shorter updates on four of Toronto's other prospects: Joe Miller, Mike Koster, Veeti Miettinen and Braeden Kressler.

Checking in on Nick Moldenhauer in his freshman NCAA season with the Michigan Wolverines.

Looking at some of the top performing prospects at the recent World Junior A Challenge from Canada, Sweden and the USA.

If you want to get more out of this year's World Juniors than just watching Minten and Cowan on Canada, keep an eye out for these seven prospects who will be eligible for this year's NHL draft!

'Twas the FTB before Christmas, when all through the blog not a creature was writing, not even for eggnog. The hyperlinks were set in the post with such care, despite knowing all the readers were gone and elsewhere.

In Torono's recent era of drafting – basically, since Shanahan took over – Toronto has been known to take re-entry prospects. Here are some of the top options that have emerged this year.

After having written similar pieces for some noteworthy prospects from the CHL leagues, Europe, and the USHL that I have added to my watch list this season, I was left in an awkward spot to deal with one further league: the NCAA.

Looking at how some of Toronto's prospects performed over the weekend.

Assessing Hudson Malinoski's play and skills as a prospect after his first 11 NCAA games.

The more this season has gone on, the more I've been posting articles and gifs and videos on Fraser Minten and Easton Cowan. They're two of Toronto's top prospects, so of course I would. And of course, there are many Leafs fans who are keenly interested in them and their development.

After profiling some of the early season breakouts in the North American leagues, I wanted to give some love to the various European leagues. It's a lot tougher for me to watch players in Europe, so rather than breaking them up into each country and trying to find

Talking about a pair of hot Swedes, some prospect updates, and trade rumours involving the Calgary Flames.

After Easton Cowan has played in 10 OHL games so far this season, it's time to check in on how he's been doing and how he's improved.

After Jack Campbell was waived by the Oilers and struggled in his second season since signing with them, have you wondered how Toronto's former players from last season are doing?

So far this season, I've written three watch list updates based on early season breakouts: * Earl WHL breakouts * Early QMJHL breakouts * Early OHL breakouts It only makes sense that I include an update on the early breakouts south of the border in the USHL! So let's

Updating the progress Artur Akhtyamov has been making in the KHL, and how the rest of his season may shape up for opportunities to get more starts.

After more than 10 games in the OHL season so far, there are a few players who have emerged thanks to big breakouts in their performance compared to their pre-season hype.