There was a single word in big white lettering plastered across the TV screen of Kyle Dubas’ practice facility office on Monday morning: Process.



It’s already become a bit of a buzzword for the Leafs new GM and was a central tenet of his speech to players at the start of training camp in Niagara Falls last month.



“He really talks about process a lot,” Connor Brown said at one point during camp. “Whether that’s every day with us — going about our business, and just really not getting too caught up in the highs and the lows and too caught up in stories — his main message was about if you worry about your process day in day out, good things will happen.”



That approach, in many ways, informed the last cuts of Leafs camp. Three staples from the Calder Cup champion roster Dubas constructed with the Marlies — Justin Holl, Garret Sparks and Martin Marincin — ultimately won jobs over better-known...