His struggles are part of an overall Marlie problem this year, there arent many players outside of Mark Fraser, Dylan Yeo, Greg McKegg, Leo Komarov, Kenny Ryan and Jussi Rynnna's playing well at the moment...

They are also carrying 28 players with Matt Frattin coming soon... (3 goalies, 8 defence 17 forwards)... Toronto ended thier ECHL affiliation with Reading and was working on one with Ft. Wayne when it fell through... Currrently Sam Carrick is the only Toronto property assigned temperarly to Idaho.... Its hard to hold practices and manage a roster with 6+ extra bodys needing extra time... Burke and staff have dropped the ball on what is a huge year of development, but they likely expected not to have a lockout in which case the Leafs would have Komarov, Frattin, Gardiner, Holzer, Scrivens and Kadri/Ashton/Aucoin...

Gardiner has nights where he is better than the AHL... followed by nights hes been terrible... his last 2 nights in Abbotsford have been extreamly forgettable with terrible play off the puck...

Scrivens has looked extreamly shakey... very different from when I've watched him the past 2 years...

As far as Colborne, you may read his profile and note his struggles at the end of last year... Also watching him game in and game out, he doesn't use his size effectively or go to the dirty areas a Center such as him should go.... Tonight he took the puck twice from shooting lanes to the outside in poor percentage areas on Leland Irving....

I like what Colborne could be, but I just dont see him getting there... very risky prospect with big upside if he ever 'gets it'... Also look at the numbers and talent around Toronto currently, any prospect in the system currently is a dice roll on if they will be fantasy relevent soon (outside of Frattin and Gardiner)...

My current favorites to be useful for the Leafs aren't high end players or useful fantasy players and aren't on many radars: Greg Scott, Jerry D'Amigo, Nic Deschamps, Mike Zigomanis, Komarov, Holzer and Paul Ranger and Rynnnas... But I don't advise anyone to take a chance on any of them...

Also Stuart Percy, Tyler Biggs, Matt Finn are likely to feed into the major competition for jobs soon and will likely be held down, not worth consideration yet in my eyes.... Only Morgan Reilly seems to be a prospect worth holding for the Leafs at the current moment...

I will say Burke has a solid set of prospects to compete on many levels, but interms of Fantasy Relevency, avoid the Leafs...

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Current Roster:

F: H Sedin, Plekanec, Kovalchuck, Perry, Cammalleri, Oshie, Stepan, Anisimov, Kunitz, Justin Williams, Little, Baertchi, Huberdeau, Olli Jokinen, Eberle, Rattie, Alfredsson

D: Boumeester, Green, Carlson, Vlasic, Del Zotto, Myers, Scandella

G: Niemi, Varlamov, Neuvirth, Harding, Ramo, Vasilevski