“Everything from hotels and meals to staff.”It’s the training, with the same staff and treatment that the Toronto Maple Leafs get. It’s the equipment: the right stick, the right curve, the right lie. The shift started when the Leafs moved their top farm team from St. John’s to Toronto for the 2005-06 season, mainly as a cost-saving measure. It makes you feel wanted.”The farm team is no longer a place to simply put prospects, which used to be how the Maple Leafs did things. “It’s the right thing to do,” Leafs general manager Lou Lamoriello says.

Source: thestar May 03, 2017 22:41 UTC