Frederik Andersen, Toronto Maple Leafs (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
The Toronto Maple Leafs drafted Auston Matthews first overall at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft and haven’t looked back.
Auston Matthews was the Toronto Maple Leafs first first-overall pick since they selected Wendel Clark in 1985.
While Clark became a Leafs Legend, he was never one of the NHL’s best players. Since the 1980s, the best Leafs player is Mats Sundin, and even he doesn’t enter the rarefied level of the Gretzky, Lemieux, Yzerman, Forsberg, Lindros, Jagr, Crosby and McDavid.
But Matthews does, and all the Leafs have done since they got him is win.