This team obviously would not finish last and be able to draft Matthews, so he is not included. Just wanted to show what kind of talent is possible to obtain through drafting alone. Hopefully in 8 years from now all us leaf fans can look back and be able to say the leafs built properly through the draft with excellent scouting and development.... and also have a cup to show for it.

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

No way in 2011 that palat goes in the third round

Looks like 30 teams didn't draft well, if some of these NHL regulars were picked in the second round and after.
Sprong? Has he shown he is an NHLer? Blackwood, has had a good career in the AHL so far.

You are correct, he was drafted in the 7th round lol

Only 4 players drafted in 2015 have already scored an nhl goal, Mcdavid, Eichel, Hanifin and Sprong. Need some elc guys like him and Blackwood to stay under cap.

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.