TORONTO — Marlies coach Sheldon Keefe is letting the parent team decide when Garrett Sparks can come back to work, but Leaf general manager Lou Lamoriello isn’t saying much.

Aside from giving permission for Sparks to re-join the farm club, Lamoriello is not allowing Sparks to practice in net with the Marlies as of Wednesday at least.

The Marlies have two weekend games and Sparks was playing behind Antoine Bibeau when sent home by the Leafs on the weekend after using inappropriate language on a goaltending-themed social media site.

Through a club spokesman, Lamoriello said there no developments in the situation with centre Peter Holland, who didn’t accompany the Leafs on their current road trip in a spat about his lack of playing time. Lamoriello has said he will try and arrange a move out of town for Holland.

Holland’s late removal from the trip left the Leafs without an extra forward, unless Josh Leivo is activated, but after Wednesday’s game in Calgary, only one stop remains, Saturday in Vancouver.

MARK OF EXCELLENCE

A lot of sports history is packed into Flames rookie centre Mark Jankowski.

He’s the grandson of the late Lou Jankowski, a Regina-born member of the Oshawa Generals, who played for Detroit and Chicago in the NHL and was a long-time scout for the Rangers and Washington. Mark’s father, Len, played NCAA hockey at Cornell, was friends with Ottawa 67’s boss Brian Kilrea and played briefly in Europe. Uncle Ryan was a Canadiens’ scout.

Lou was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and like the older members of the family, Mark was an excellent baseball player. He was a centre fielder on the Georgetown Eagles 2007 national peewee champions, coached by Blue Jays scout Bill Byckowski and Hall of Fame Toronto Sun baseball columnist Bob Elliott. Jankowski won the nationals again with Vaughan in ‘09. He had to leave the sport after being drafted 21st overall in 2012 by Calgary out of Providence College and debuted Monday against the Islanders.“I have a pretty big background in hockey, so it’s pretty cool to be able to carry that on,” Mark said.

MYSTERY UNMASKED

Leafs’ radio analyst Jim Ralph, a former goalie, had a keen observation while scanning Jacques Plante’s mask in a display case of Oiler memorabilia at the new Rogers Place. The wraparound model might have been the last mask the great innovator ever wore as the World Hockey Association Oilers were his final North American stop in 1975.

“I knew his mask right away, because I always wanted one as a kid,” Ralph said.

LOOSE LEAFS

We like the nickname for the row of seven Leaf rookies in the dressing room — Young Street ... The Leafs should open every Western road trip in Edmonton. When doing so, their record is 7-1-1 since 1998-99, but they’ve only won a couple of times when starting in Calgary or Vancouver ... Auston Matthews agreed that Nazem Kadri must have “zero friends” in Edmonton after two games where he got under the skin of many Oilers, starting with Connor McDavid. “But you have to love having a guy like that on your team,” Matthews said. “He’s unbelievable, the way he’s shutting down lines, scoring goals and doing everything out there. He’s been really good for us lately.”

LEAFS 101

Outside the Flames’ dressing room at the Scotiabank Saddledome is the giant photo of Calgary’s 1989 Stanley Cup champions. Ten players with future Leaf connections on the ice or behind the bench were on that club, many brought by Cliff Fletcher when he departed as GM to take the job in Toronto. They include defenceman Jamie Macoun, a Newmarket native and one of the Leafs who played all 21 post-season games for Toronto in its memorable 1993 spring run. Macoun would appear in 20-plus playoff matches four times in his career. He had 101 points in 466 Leaf games and wore 34, now the property of Auston Matthews.