They are mostly out of sight, but not out of mind for Craig Berube. Article content

While putting his minor pros and juniors in a practice pod that toils long after the TV cameras have packed up from shooting the stars, the Maple Leafs coach isn’t forgetting them as training camp began Thursday. Berube was once young and undrafted himself — and managed to scrape his way through 1,000 NHL games. Article content Article content

“It’s not ideal, they have a lot of guys (close to 30), but they’ll put the work in that we did today and see where it goes,” he said of the development group. “For sure you’ll see them in exhibition games and there could be switches with our first two groups. I’m not going to say all of them might get a game. We only have six and we have to get our (main) team

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