Though the Toronto Maple Leafs didn’t enter the draft lottery with the best chance to win, by the time everything came down to the final pick, they had the best odds to get Connor McDavid, but it didn’t work out.
It was just another thing in a long line of crap to happen to this franchise that came within a whisker of getting Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Eric LIndros, Scott Niedermeyer, Joe Sakic and Robert Luongo but didn’t.
The tide seemed to turn at the actual draft table when the Arizona Coyotes inexplicably selected Dylan Strome and Mitch Marner fell into the Leafs lap.