At the 2019 NHL Draft, the Toronto Maple Leafs drafted six new prospects.
They didn’t have a first round pick, so the leader of the pack was forward Nick Robertson, who I covered in my last piece.
After taking Robertson at 53rd overall, they plugged through the rest of the draft and finished it off by selecting Finnish defenseman Kalle Loponen in the seventh round at 204th overall.
NHL Entry Draft
A native of Hameenlinna, a city just south of Tampere, Finland, Loponen is a right-handed defenseman who has been playing in Karpat’s organization since he was 15 years old.