On the phones of all 46 players who attended this week’s Leafs development camp in Etobicoke is an app.



On the app is a specialized package for each player which includes videos the Leafs’ development team spent the entire week recording of their drills and games, from iPads at ice level to birds-eye cameras in the stands. Some are minute explanations and breakdowns of their strides by skating coach Barb Underhill. Some were shot by a bevvy of other staff — more than a dozen on one pad at any given time.



On the ice, Leafs assistants D.J. Smith and Jim Hiller coordinate drills, or teach skills-specific techniques on things like how they’d like a player to lean on forwards in front of the net.



Nearby, Stephane Robidas and Marlies assistant coach Rob Davidson take a different group of defencemen to another pad to work on head fakes and to detail how they want them to cup the puck at the tail end of a curl into the...