The Toronto Maple Leafs are a team built through excellent first round drafting.
Morgan Rielly was fifth overall, William Nylander eighth, Auston Matthews first, and Mitch Marner fourth.
Through in a hall of fame free agent signing, and trades for Freddie Andersen and Jake Muzzin, and you’ve got quite the team.
But the Leafs are missing their second round gem, as of yet.
And that is what will put them over the top.
Toronto Maple Leafs Second Round Gem
If you look at the teams who have managed to sustain a long period of dominance over the last decade, they all seem to have one thing in common: they were able to supplement their roster with a high-end talent found by pure luck later in the draft.