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Williams is a guy that fits an archetype that has been in vogue under Dubas, then Treliving, and apparently under Chayka now too. Fraser Minten, Hudson Malinoski, Miroslav Holinka, Tinus Luc Koblar, Tyler Hopkins, Jacob Quillan, Luke Haymes, and now good ol' Coop – your smart two-way center whose impact goes past their skill level. How much skill and how much impact they have...

The list of players who wanted or were rumoured to want or maybe wanted trades in July is still about the same as it was then.

Ryan Tverberg is 24, that is the crucial point about this prospect. He's exactly seven months shy of being too old for this list, and when that's true, and you aren't in the NHL, there's a lot of prospects or players who will rank ahead of you.

Honestly it feels like the cover story for this article below about Nick Paul is a bit pasted on for some Leafs content. I think Paul was a good addition, and I also think his season last year isn't some sign of age decline. But playoff knowhow comes way down the list of what he offers and it seems to be his main attribute according to this.

We kick off this year's Top 25 Under 25 with a 19-year-old right-shooting defender out of the OHL. He was left unranked coming out of the draft last year with a label as one of Brad Treliving's Large Adult Sons. As a reminder, the only player taken by the Leafs in 2025 that wasn't 6'3" or larger was centre Tyler Hopkins, and Fellinger was the tallest of the bunch. So in an ef...