This team some ass

they very well may have still taken marner.

that's possible but I'm sure they would've went with the C

just imagine how different the league would be if he was born literally 2 days earlier. Marner isn't a Leaf, Laine is one, Tavares probably doesn't sign as this team isn't nearly as good

the darkest timeline

Think it's more likely they still take Marner, but they never transition Nylander to the wing. If my memory serves, Nylander had primarily been a C with the Marlies, and he did a good job of it.

Also without Matthews there's no way they're good enough to be an appealing destination for Tavares. He probably goes to San Jose or one of the team's who offered him 13mil.

The bad ending is movies be like:

This would have really sucked. But it's possible they still would have drafted Marner because it was Hunter and Dubas drafting that year.

I thought Mark Hunter was really set on Marner?

They may not have drafted 1st in 2016 with matthews

The entire league is impacted...
Matthews would have gone to Coyotes
JT goes to Sharks
Eriksson to Colorado
Makar to Senators
Stutzle to Red Wings

1 thing I'm wondering is if the Sabres would draft Eichel over Matthews. Definitely would've been an interesting thing to see.

Marner and PLD ­> Laine and Strome

Would have been the best top 3 selections possibly ever.

They would have drafted Marner regardless, but assuming they don't get Matthews and aren't good as quickly as they were, that also likely means:

Tavares doesn't sign in Toronto, they wouldn't be contenders yet lacking a No. 1 C. Laine is an elite goal scoring W but I'm not sure he really tips the scale.
Kadri maybe doesn't get traded because the Leafs don't have a Matthews-Tavares 1-2 punch to lean on. Kerfoot and Barrie likely never become Leafs
They don't spend assets to get Muzzin because they're still in a rebuild.
They might not sign Brodie if they don't seem like contenders right now.
The contract negotiations go differently because Marner doesn't have Matthews and Tavares to point to as comparable. Nylander probably stays about the same but Marner is maybe 2M cheaper.
They don't need to shed cap so Kapanen and Johnsson are probably still in Toronto
With no pressure on the cap they also probably don't move Zaitsev
Who knows what happens with Thornton, Simmonds, Speeza, Bogo, or all the others who came cheap.

Laine - Kadri - Marner
Hyman - Nylander - Kapanen
Johnsson - Engvall - Mikheyev
Boyd - Brooks - Barabanov/Vesey

Rielly - Zaitsev
Sandin - Holl
Dermott - Liljegren
Marincin