The Maple Leafs ordered another round of Tall Boys this year.

Forwards Dakota Joshua (6-feet-3, 218 pounds) and Nicolas Roy (6-foot-4, 200) arrive in the wake of trade deadline defence acquisition Brandon Carlo (6-foot-5, 227). And if they make the team or the AHL Marlies, Michael Pezzetta (6-foot-1, 222), defenceman Henry Thrun (6-foot-2, 211) join two draft rounds under general manager Brad Treliving full of large lads.

Onlookers must crane their necks when passing this gargantuan group in their skates as they change rinks at the Ford Performance Centre in the first days of training camp. It’s on display during battle drills that coach Craig Berube has featured to end an already intense practice, two or four Leafs scrapping to score inside a 20-foot radius on one net and goalie, plac

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