The Toronto Maple Leafs have now conducted three drafts under the scouting guidance of Assistant General Manager Mark Hunter: 2015, 2016, and 2017. While it’s still too early to form a final judgment on most of these picks, they’ve selected twenty-seven players over that time span. These players will hopefully form the base for years of Leaf success.
Further, we now have a pretty large sample of the scouting work of the Leaf front office under Hunter. Obviously the decisions are not exclusively his, and the Leafs gained a new general manager between the 2015 and 2016 drafts, which has an impact.