NHL Draft

The Leafs have a decision to make today: do they use their first pick, or trade it.

Yesterday the Leafs drafted Matthews. Today they can draft 10 more players.

For an organization that has made the playoffs just once in its last dozen seasons, the arrival of a potential superstar and a bright future are long overdue.

The Toronto Maple Leafs opened Buffalo's 2016 NHL Draft festivities in predictable fashion, selecting Arizona-born centre Auston Matthews with the first overall pick.

The day is finally here, let's hold onto our butts.

The 2016 NHL Draft is upon us. Here's some players the Leafs could target with each of their first five selections.

The 2016 NHL Draft is finally here, but where can you watch it? We've got all the details.

Don't quit your day job, Willy!

If Toronto takes Auston Matthews first overall, he'll be entering fame and pressure unrivalled by any Leafs player before him.

Wow, who would have thought?

Note: The Leafs don't own the 30th pick anymore due to the Frederik Andersen trade, but the SB Nation NHL Mock Draft was executed before the trade. This player would work at 31st overall too.

The 2015-2016 NHL season is complete and the draft order is finalized.

Between 1971 & 2011 the Maple Leafs traded away 126 draft picks. What kind of team can be made with the players chosen?

From Buffalo to San Jose and back again, Auston Matthews, Patrik Laine and a few friends went on a quest.

With the first overall selection in SB Nation's NHL 2016 Mock Draft, the Toronto Maple Leafs are proud to select...

The NHL Scouting Combine's fitness testing has quickly come and gone. Here's who stood out.

Sportsnet has a livestream available for the final day of the Combine from Buffalo. See Auston Matthews and Patrik Laine in action in the drills.

The first NHL draft was held in 1963, who did the Leafs pick?

The Leafs scouting staff are hard at work in Buffalo looking for new prospects who will hope to become part of the bright Maple Leaf future. They started at the top with an interview with Auston Matthews.

A helpful Buffalo Sabres fan has some NHL Draft tickets for sale...to the right fan

Few players in the 2016 NHL Draft class have become as polarizing as Alex DeBrincat.

Vitalii Abramov is scary good with a puck on his stick and should be a target for the Leafs if he's available towards the end of the first round.

The idea that the Coyotes are willing to set their team back a few years just to get a local kid needs to be killed and buried in the desert.

Let's continue to explore the worst-case scenarios for first overall. This is a Toronto Maple Leafs blog, after all.

With the draft lottery complete and the Pittsburgh Penguins first round pick location still in limbo, the 2016 NHL Draft Profile series turns its attention to potential candidates for the Leafs at 31st overall.