{"id":545583,"date":"2026-04-07T13:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545583\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:51:31","slug":"maple-leafs-tyler-hopkins-harry-nansi-sign-ahl-tryouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545583\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs’ Tyler Hopkins, Harry Nansi Sign AHL Tryouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maple Leafs forward prospects\u00a0Tyler Hopkins<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Harry Nansi<\/a>\u00a0signed amateur tryouts with AHL Toronto on Monday, the team announced<\/a>. They can\u2019t be directly \u201cassigned\u201d to the AHL after completing their junior seasons, as the Leafs haven\u2019t yet signed them to their entry-level contracts, but this will still allow each of them to make their pro debuts this season after their Ontario Hockey League playoff runs both concluded in sweeps last week.<\/p>\n

Hopkins, 19, was Toronto\u2019s third-round pick in 2025 out of Kingston. He was dealt to Guelph midway through this season, with whom he tallied a 13-12\u201325 scoring line in 27 games down the stretch. He was their only player to score multiple goals in what ended up being an aggressive dispatching by Windsor, which outscored Guelph 21-5 in the four-game series.<\/p>\n

The Leafs can wait until June 1, 2027, to sign Hopkins before losing his rights. No matter if they ink him now or this offseason, he\u2019ll be heading back to Guelph in the fall. A 6\u20191\u2033 pivot with good two-way instincts, he tallied 50 points in 56 games this year across his stints in Kingston and Guelph and grades out as the #11-ranked prospect in one of the weakest pools in the league, Scott Wheeler of The Athletic<\/a> wrote last month. Some added muscle could allow him to develop into a potential fourth-line piece with good defensive numbers.<\/p>\n

Nansi is arguably the more intriguing talent. He went two rounds after Hopkins last year, but the Quebec native was one of the youngest players in the class with a Sep. 10 birthday and took a giant leap forward this season. After the 6\u20193\u2033 right winger was limited to seven goals and 23 points in 67 games as a second-year junior player in Owen Sound last season, he finished third on the Attack in scoring this year with a 13-43\u201356 line in 67 games. He ultimately went pointless in four postseason outings as Owen Sound was also stomped out of the playoffs by Flint, losing their four-game series by an aggregate score of 35-3.<\/p>\n

Still, that offensive breakout means he\u2019s climbed into being a top-10 prospect for the Leafs, with Wheeler tabbing him at #6. The question is whether he can develop enough physically \u2013 he currently checks in at only 179 lbs \u2013 while continuing to improve his skating in hopes of being able to hit as a lower-end top-nine piece someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs forward prospects\u00a0Tyler Hopkins\u00a0and\u00a0Harry Nansi\u00a0signed amateur tryouts with AHL Toronto on Monday, the team announced. They can\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[39193,5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171,405,10226],"class_list":{"0":"post-545583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-harry-nansi","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-maple-leafs","11":"tag-mapleleafs","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","15":"tag-torontomapleleafs","16":"tag-transactions","17":"tag-tyler-hopkins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116363754665366501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}