Often times teams will draft a player and trade him before he plays for them – and there’s 3 particular play names that stand out for the Toronto Maple Leafs who they drafted but never played.
It really goes without saying that there’s no judging what a player’s development trajectory looks like, so the Toronto Maple Leafs are certainly not the only team to commit this faux pas.
Given the sheer fact that the Toronto Maple Leafs are an Original Six team, they are statistically among the group most likely to have drafted players and let them slip from their grasps, given they’ve been drafting since the NHL Amateur Draft was formally established back in 1963.