They came as salary dumps. They will leave...as heroes. Or something. Here's what the Leafs should do with Brooks Laich, Milan Michalek and Colin Greening.
As has been noted, the Leafs have an awful lot of forwards competing for jobs at the moment. Of the forwards who aren't obvious locks for a spot, you can divide them into two simple categories: the young guns and the old dogs. (And Joffrey Lupul. We'll save him for another day.)
The young guns include Peter Holland, Josh Leivo, Connor Brown, Nikita Soshnikov, Zach Hyman, Byron Froese, Kerby Rychel and Mitch Marner, and could conceivably stretch to include guys like Tobias Lindberg, Kasperi Kapanen, Brendan Leipsic, and Andreas Johnson.