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Jordan Subban has a ways to go before getting the NHL exposure of older brothers P.K. and Malcolm.

But playing for the defending Calder Cup Marlies won’t hurt his cause, a chance to wear blue and white for his hometown team as well.

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Subban came to the Maple Leafs on a two-way deal earlier this summer when Los Angeles cut him after a trade with his draft club, the Vancouver Canucks. There’s work to be done with the 5-foot-9, 175-pounder, but anytime the Leafs can get a 23-year-old defenceman with some potential, they’ll take it.

“These guys have one of the best development teams in the league and my goal is to make it with the big club,” Jordan said Tuesday after practice. “So I’ll put that work in, do what they tell me and focus on getting better every day.

“It’s a clean slate, come in and show I can play in my own zone. Get up in the rush when I can and create some offence.”

A Marlborough minor leaguer in the GTHL and a pal of Max Domi, Jordan had some of P.K.’s pop with 52 points his last year in Belleville of the OHL. But it has now been three up-and-down seasons in the AHL for the fourth-round pick, with low production numbers and issues elsewhere on the ice. When he was not re-signed by the Kings, Toronto general manager Kyle Dubas scooped him.