Following a catastrophic season, the Toronto Maple Leafs were preparing to accelerate their rebuild, which started with selecting top notch prospects at the 2015 Draft.
The Toronto Maple Leafs sat with two first round selections on draft day 2015, and but traded down twice and selected just one player in the opening round.
The pair of co-GMs Kyle Dubas and Mark Hunter worked together to trade down and select organizational favorites, shipping out the Predators’ 24th overall pick (originally acquired in the Cody Franson trade) to the Flyers in exchange for Tampa’s 29th overall pick (acquired in the Braydon Coburn trade), and the 61st overall pick. The Leafs then flipped the 29th overall pick to the Blue Jackets for the 34th and 68th overall selections.
Following these trades, the Leafs were set to make nine selections over two days. After a positive 2014 draft, the Leafs were poised to please in 2015, and so we return four years later to find out: did they?
This is my sixth installment of the “Where Are They Now?” draft series, so I’d encourage you to check out my previous five posts if you have missed any!