Leo Komarov speaks four languages — Finnish, Swedish, Russian and English — but the one he speaks best is hockey.

Born in Estonia to Russian parents, the family moved to a Swedish town in Finland when he was 5. He’s got hockey’s rivalries — Sweden-Finland, Canada-Russia — internalized.

“I’m friends with everybody. I’m a good guy,” he said, laughing.

The 25-year-old winger has the best chance among the 42 players assembled at the Maple Leafs prospect camp to earn a job with the big club come October.

“He is a man amongst boys,” said Jim Hughes, the Leafs director of player development who is running the four-day camp. “But the most evident thing you could see out here was the velocity of how he passes the puck. He passes like a pro. Most of the guys pass it like amateurs. He’s got a little pepper to his passes, he zings it around. He’s in a different class than the other guys around here.”

He better be. Komarov won a world championship with Finland in 2011 and this spring he won the KHL title with Dynamo Moscow. Now he’s left Europe to pursue his dream.

“I had a dream since I was a little boy to play in the NHL,” said Komarov. “The Leafs are a good club. I’m proud to be here.”

The next step: the NHL.

“We’re hoping that’s the progression,” said Hughes. “You can see he’s got natural abilities and he’s got plenty of sandpaper to go along with it. He has NHL skill, no doubt about that.”

What he’s not great at is blowing his own horn. When asked about his world title and league title, his answers were humble and a tad surprising.

“It’s only medals,” said Komarov. “It was fun to win. It’s something to remember, but still I need to do work every day and try to be a better player.

“It’s always fun to win. It’s not only my thing. It’s the whole team that won. I’m a team player and I love to play for a team.”

Komarov, picked 180th overall by the Leafs in 2006, played the last three seasons for Dynamo. He said he was captain for 15 games this season. He had 11 goals and 13 assists in 46 games.

“I like to hit, forecheck,” said Komarov, 5-foot-11 and 198 pounds. “Maybe I’m not the best goal scorer, but I can score if I get open. I just want to help the team, whatever they want to do. A lot of players play against me, don’t like me. But that’s only on the ice.”

Komarov will spend the summer in Toronto getting to know some of his future teammates and the city, as well as familiarizing himself with the smaller ice surface.

On Monday, the first day of drills, Hughes used Komarov’s evident skills to show the team’s top prospects how a pro operates, especially in handling the puck.

“I grabbed Morgan Rielly and (Stuart) Percy and (Matt) Finn and Connor Brown and said start getting in the habit of passing the puck hard,” said Hughes. “It’s really the big difference between the amateur game and the pro game. You could see the velocity of how these guys zip it around. They collect it and they move it. Everything is done hard.”

It’s become almost a rite of passage that one or two players from the Leafs summer camp actually ends up in the NHL the same season. Last year, it was Jake Gardiner, Matt Frattin and Ben Scrivens.

That knowledge is not lost on centre Tyler Biggs, the team’s first-round pick in 2011 who has grown to a massive 218 pounds.

Biggs left Miami of Ohio after one year to turn pro. While his most likely 2012-13 destination is the Oshawa Generals, the Leafs have the option of placing him with the Marlies. Of course, Biggs has something bigger in mind.

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“Right now, my focus is just to make the Toronto Maple Leafs,” said Biggs. “I’ve got to go (to training camp) with confidence. In my mind, I’ve got to go in thinking I have a chance to do it. If not, there’s no sense in going.”

Biggs, Greg McKegg and Andrew Crescenzi spent some extra time on the ice on Monday, chosen to take shots on the four goalies for about 90 minutes while the rest of the skaters rested in the middle of the day.

“This isn’t going to be a cakewalk,” said Biggs. “Everybody has to work hard out here. Everybody is watching. You have to take advantage of that and really make an impact so people remember something you did that set you apart from everybody else. That’s what’s going to separate you down the line when September comes.”