After the first overall pick where there was zero suspense, the Leafs made some confounding choices in the draft. What were they doing, exactly?
From the day the Leafs hired Mark Hunter, the jokes have written themselves. Watch the Leafs draft all of the London Knights. Now they know all the OHL secrets, watch them empty the league at the draft. They'll get Tkachuk somehow!
And the reality has turned out to be very, very different.
After the choice of Auston Matthews, the obvious first overall, and a man with one year of pro hockey under his suspenders, the Leafs stayed that course, picking two more European skaters with multiple years of pro hockey experience.