At this point in Maple Leafs training camp, everyone — from players, to fans, to the media — is looking for signs about who will make the team.

With at least three jobs apparently undecided — fourth-line centre, and the sixth and seventh defencemen — a nervous energy still prevails in camp, especially with three pre-season games remaining for hopefuls to prove themselves.

One of those players in a job hunt, defenceman Calle Rosen, might have received one of those good signs about his future in Toronto.

The soft-spoken but confident 23-year-old from Vaxjo, Sweden, just moved out of a downtown hotel room, where he had been housed at the start of camp, and took an apartment over the weekend.

While nothing is finalized yet with the Leafs roster, the fact Rosen has been told to land himself a more permanent Toronto address suggests at the very least that he is definitely in the plans for a Toronto roster — either with the Leafs or the Marlies.

If that’s the case, it would only further underline the impact Rosen has made on the Leafs; he emerged as a leading candidate to fill one of the vacancies on defence, and his story has so far been a feel-good one in Leafs camp.

“He’s super mobile, he passes the puck extremely well, he uses his stick really well,” said Connor Carrick, who would project to be Rosen’s defensive partner if Rosen earns the job as the sixth defenceman.

“He’s just fun to play with. The hardest thing to do (for a rookie) is play at the NHL level and be consistent at that level. But (Rosen) has shown he can. And his off-ice demeanour is like his game: he’s confident in himself because he’s just plain confident.”

Rosen has been given an inside track — at least in the media — largely because he’s played the last two seasons in Sweden’s top league, the SHL, with the Vaxjo Lakers club. That experience at least put him in the battle against his competitors — Travis Dermott, Andreas Borgman, Martin Marincin and Roman Polak.

Polak was expected to play his first game of the pre-season Wednesday in Quebec City against the Canadiens, but coach Mike Babcock said Tuesday that Polak is not quite ready for game action.

“I talked to him today and he’s not ready, but he’s moving ahead,” Babcock said of Polak, who is battling back from a broken leg he suffered against Washington in the first round of the playoffs last spring.

In the meantime, the theme for defencemen at this year’s camp has been skating. For instance, there were six defencemen at Leafs rookie camp three weekends ago, all of them over 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds. Only one remains in camp — Andrew Nielsen.

Rosen’s skating has certainly drawn attention. He’s been a solid, NHL-level skater for several seasons and an old Swedish coach once compared the skating ability of a younger Rosen to a Hockey Hall of Famer.

“When I was 16, my coach said you skate like Paul Coffey, and at the time, I had no idea who that was,” said Rosen, who added that he does not use a skating coach, but works on his leg strength and skating muscles diligently during gym workouts back home.

“I found out and then it was fun to be compared to a great player like that. But at the same time, I have to be myself, I have to be my own player and play my game.”

There is the question of playing in North America for the first time and Rosen shows no signs of a lack of confidence in making the transition.

He watched a lot of NHL games as a younger player, focusing primarily on former Leaf captain Mats Sundin. He also met NHL star defenceman Oliver Ekman-Larsson at the world championships last spring, and discussed the details and nuances of the NHL and life in North America.

Rosen was a final cut for Sweden at the worlds, but his climb to his national team was something of a story that slid under the NHL radar.

He was not drafted the year he was eligible (2012), and wasn’t even listed in the top 100 European prospects.

While working his way up through Allsvenskan and Vaxjo, he impressed enough to earn himself an invite to Sweden’s camp for worlds and reportedly attracted offers from 14 NHL teams, narrowing his list down to the Leafs and Chicago.

The Leafs wound up signing him, along with fellow countryman Borgman, to an entry-level contract in May.

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All through his relatively quiet rise to the NHL, Rosen’s biggest strength was his silent confidence in himself. He worked on his skating by himself, and even turned down earlier offers from NHL teams because he felt he needed to get better in the Swedish league before transferring over to the pro game in North America.

Now, in Toronto, he has his first apartment, and a very real opportunity to create a future with the Leafs.

“It’s a big city, that’s what you notice for sure, but it’s a really good city, you can still walk around and see things,” Rosen said. “I hope I can stay here for years to come.”