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Hunter and scouts aim to build on impressive prospect pool

As scouts, GMs and other NHL team executives work away in Buffalo, N.Y. for the League’s draft combine event, Maple Leafs director of player personnel Mark Hunter is in an enviable position: his team currently holds the No. 1 overall selection, two picks in each of the first four rounds of the draft, and 12 picks altogether. And after he and Toronto’s brass sat down this week and interviewed more than 90 young prospects as part of the combine process, Hunter is excited about what the organization will come away with when the draft is held in the same Western New York city on June 24 and 25.