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Young Leafs: The Making of a New Hockey History
An in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at how Auston Matthews and a gang of talented young hockey players broke from Toronto’s troubled sporting past and rekindled the city’s love for its team . . .
With the arrival in 2016 of the team’s first overall draft pick in over twenty years it seemed that the Leafs were ready to break with their past, and in Young Leafs sports writer and journalist Gare Joyce follows the team through that remarkable season, tracing the divergent journeys of the players, old and new, as ups and downs unfold, the team attempts to overcome its ghosts while writing a new future that is far from certain.