Maple Leafs’ heavyweight hopefuls get the preliminaries out of the way as quickly as possible

“When you’re in a battle drill, stuff like that happens,” Rhett Parsons says after scrapping with Matthew Hlacar at the Leafs’ development camp.

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It wouldn’t be a development camp without a player or two trying to stand out in some way.

So credit a couple of heavyweight wannabes — forward Matthew Hlacar and defenceman Rhett Parsons — for dropping the gloves.

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