Six Maple Leafs’ prospects are heading to the WJC in a bubble in Edmonton. They are three Russians and three Finns, four drafted in October, two in the summer of 2019. With one goalie, two defenders and three forwards, they make a neat starting lineup. Surprisingly, considering these are Leafs’ prospects, one of the forwards is even a centre.
The six hopefuls arrived in Edmonton on Sunday, on the same plane, and then they went their separate ways as Finland and Russia are in different groups. In a normal WJC, they’d be in two different cities. They don’t play each other in the exhibition matches that run from Sunday, December 20 to Wednesday, December 23.