Today’s Maple Leafs development camp scrimmage pitted Team Clark against Team Sittler, continuing the usual tradition of naming the teams after the stars of the old days.
The teams also continued the structure of this camp where the draft picks are split up from the large number of free agents to work out separately. The free agents are vying for potential AHL or ECHL jobs either now or when their college careers end. The draft picks are beginning a long process of development for the NHL. They hope.
The two sides met in a scrimmage game today and it wasn’t the draft picks who dominated, it was the free agents with one hot line who ran all over the team of better-known Leafs picks.