Occasionally I will waste an afternoon making lists, and I had a great time listing out every Maple Leafs draft pick in team history. Why do I do things like this? No one knows, but with the 2020 NHL draft coming up in less than a month, I thought I would bust out that list and see what I can do with it.

Details of the NHL draft have been released

We’ve had a lot of great draft pick profiles come out this year, as well as other pre-draft content and I gathered some of it here for you:

2020 NHL Draft Profile: Brandon Coe, the next Zach Hyman
2020 NHL Draft Profile: Justin Sourdif
2020 NHL Draft Profile: Victor Mancini, the next Jake Muzzin?
2020 NHL Draft Profile: Zayde Wisdom, the next Zach Hyman

Wait...how many Zach Hymans are we going to draft?

It’s no secret I’m bad at analysis but kinda okay at picking through Leafs history and finding some randomness in all the items and over the next few weeks I’m going to use that list I made to gather things up into collections of silliness. A few years ago I looked at the Leafs draft round by round, which you can see here:

Since filler content is my passion in life, we’ll look at the Leafs favorite teams to draft from, which GM’s favoured college kids of major junior and any other piece of random trivia that has no use existing in the world. It’s going to be fun!

If you were nursing a long weekend hangover yesterday, here’s what you missed:

Maple Leafs or Blues: Who has the best chance to sign Alex Pietrangelo
Mikko Kokkonen’s team in quarantine after Coronavirus outbreak
Back to Excited Episode 118 - Mailbag!

Did you know the playoffs are still going on? I know! I forgot too!

[Links to Knights / Stars game 2 stuff if I remember to put it in here]

No, the Leafs are not on this list because their goal song is perfect.

NHL Teams' Goal Songs In Need Of Change - Last Word on Hockey

Lots of players/prospects are heading to Europe:

Rangers Loan Libor Hajek to Czech Extraliga
Prospect Jakub Zboril loaned to Kometa Brno, and why you’ll definitely see more of that in the coming year

Even more chances to make the Canucks play at 4PM local time? I love it!

Oh Canada! An Idea for a New Division Alignment for 2020-21?

Could Letang be part of the Leafs future?

Report: Kris Letang “expecting” to be traded...but he probably shouldn’t

Alright folks, that’s it for me. Have a great day and keep an eye out for my first piece of pre-draft filler content. It will go up as soon as I stop working doubles.

So, like, never.

Bye!

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