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Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 5, 2016 at 10:58 p.m.
Thread: Possible Roster without trading away past picks.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LeafsFan</b></div><div><i>I say this on every post like this; yes the leafs had bad player development but so do most teams.

Go to the draft boards and look at the team by team basis; look at some of the good teams. In most drafts they're lucky to get 1 or 2 NHL players, in some drafts they get none. It sometimes just takes a bit of luck</i></div></div>

Most teams are not as bad as the leafs, for example total nhl games played by the 9 maple leafs drafted in 2011 is 62. Frank Corrado alone who was drafted the same year by Vancouver has played in 67 games. Toronto draft picks in 2010 played only 73 games total, only the Canucks drafted worse and no other teams produced under 100 games. Looking through the above drafts year by year Toronto was consistantly at the bottom in producing nhl players, there were exceptions of course (Luke Schenn has actually played more games than any other leaf draftee in that period).

Also noticed that when the "good teams" didnt produce an nhl player it was when they were basically drafting only in rounds 4 to 7 because they had traded away their earlier picks.

Fortunately the new leaf regime is placing a greater emphasis on scouting and drafting, The last 2 drafts have been very successful IMO.