Michael Langlois of Vintage Leaf Memories will stop by Maple Leafs Hot Stove throughout the Maple Leafs’ centennial season to provide his reflections on past Leaf teams and players from his sixty-plus years of following the Blue and White.
For those Maple Leaf followers whose hockey psyche has not already been unalterably damaged, the annual summertime entry draft has been the one constant that has created a genuine sense of hope in recent times.
Every June, fans knew the Leafs had a top pick baking in the proverbial hockey draft oven—and because of successive seasons of (let’s be honest) pretty dismal play, we’ve been drafting very high.