2013 NHL Draft
The Toronto Maple Leafs don’t have 2nd or 4th-round picks and elect to take the incredibly average Frederik Gauthier with the 21st overall pick.
There isn’t a ton of talent picked at the end of the 1st-round and most of the 2nd-round; however, so, like most of these hindsight picks I’m making, hitting on a big name here is pretty much a crapshoot. That being ignored, the 2nd-rounder the Leafs traded to Chicago for Dave Bolland could have been used to select Tyler Bertuzzi (58) and instead of Gauthier we could have drafted Shea Theodore. Oh to dream.
How the Leafs drafted:
Frederik Gauthier (21)
Carter Verhaeghe (82) Good pick. Kristers Gudlevskis? Really?
Fabrice Herzog (142)
Antoine Bibeau (172)
Andreas Johnsson (202) Pretty darn good for the 7th-round!
How the Leafs should have drafted:
Shea Theodore (26)
Oliver Bjorkstrand (99)
Dominic Kubalik (191)
Andreas Johnsson (202)
MacKenzie Weegar (206)
Other notable names available:
Andre Burakovsky (23), Ryan Hartman (30), Tristan Jarry (44), Brett Pesce (66), Pavel Buchnevich (75), Jake Guentzel (77), Anthony Duclair (80), Juuse Saros (99), Andrew Kopp (104)