Whew, the Leafs have been busy.



They spent the first week of May adding three European imports, beginning with the Marlies arrival of 2016’s 31st-overall pick Egor Korshkov and ending with the signings of standout KHL winger Ilya Mikheyev and Liiga defender Teemu Kivihalme.



In the days since, I have watched back a combined 24 games (eight per player) in order to bring you this mini-series, which will evaluate the three players individually through video in an effort to give you as complete a picture as possible as to what they offer and where they might fit within the organization.



The series begins with Kivihalme, whose archetypal fit within the Leafs’ recent trend at defence couldn’t be more pronounced.



As with each player, the eight games I watched are his eight most recent (which gives us the best available at the current state of the player’s game, against the toughest possible competition they’ve faced to...