Every year during the rookie development camp and prospect tournaments, there’s some talk about signing one or more of them to ELCs. That leads to inevitable questions about how it works. Can the Leafs sign an undrafted prospect they invited to their rookie camp?
Should they, even if they can? After all, if they were that good as prospects you’d expect them to have actually been, you know, drafted already. But this off-season is no ordinary one thanks to the pandemic. A fair amount of prospects barely played last year, or looked bad in limited minutes during a stressful time, or caught COVID and had to recover from it, or never even played in a single game in their draft year.