Since coming back from injuries that kept them out of the lineup for an extended period of time, Maple Leafs defence prospects Rasmus Sandin and Timothy Liljegren have been racking up minutes with the Marlies and turning heads in the organization.



“They’ve both played awfully well,” Leafs GM Kyle Dubas said recently.



The AHL does not make time on ice available to the media, but by my tracking, Liljegren and Sandin are playing more shifts than any other defencemen. They both get minutes at even strength, on the power play and the penalty kill. Marlies coach Sheldon Keefe also indicated that in back to back games last weekend against the Syracuse Crunch, the pair of Swedes led the team in ice time.



With two major injuries on the Leafs blueline in Jake Gardiner and Travis Dermott, many fans have looked at the boost in Liljegren and Sandin’s minutes as a sign that they are getting primed for a call-up to the NHL.



And while Dubas...