The Toronto Maple Leafs have notoriously had pretty poor luck when it comes to draft picks.
Besides a few stars, it’s been underwhelming returns consistently and between that and poor asset management, it’s a mixed bags at the draft table for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Until recently, they haven’t had a large number of “homegrown talent” which has lead to them having a lack of real playoff success since well, 1967.
They could get away with it in the pre-cap world when team’s with larger pocket books could buy talent. Now, with ELC contracts becoming a very valuable commodity, teams rely on the draft more and more to fill out their roster.