The Toronto Maple Leafs have six prospects at the 2021 World Junior Championships in Edmonton. Two are top-line wingers, and one is a very intriguing defenceman, impressing early. Three play for Finland and three for Russia, and both of those teams have played one exhibition and one round-robin game on Christmas Day.
The tournament has been troubled by an only partially effective testing and quarantining process to get the players into the Edmonton bubble free of coronavirus, so Sweden had half the team in quarantine, and could not play an exhibition, and Germany had all their players unavailable even to practice until the day before their first came on the 25th.