The Leafs have continued targeting premium positions by selecting a right-handed center at pick #151. The team does not currently have a right-handed center in its NHL lineup, nor did it have one last season. Their most notable center prospect at the moment, Fraser Minten, is also left-handed.
Of course, Holinka won’t be making the NHL roster anytime soon—if ever—but it highlights how difficult it is to bring in these types of players (right-handed defensemen and centers), and the Leafs are trying to stock their cupboards at the premium positions.
Holinka is also a late birthday in this draft class; he was born in November of 2005 in a draft with a September 2006 cutoff.