Toronto Maple Leafs

4th Atlantic
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  • Goals For
    250 GF
  • Goals Against
    234 GA
  • Power Play %
    23.8 PP%
  • Penalty Kill %
    82.5 PK%
  • Penalty Mins
    799 PIM
  • National Post

    Toronto Maple Leafs focus on blueline with first two picks of 2017 NHL draft

    The Toronto Maple Leafs had a can’t miss pick with No. 1 Auston Matthews last year and might have received another gift in Friday night’s first round of the NHL draft in Chicago. Looking to improve their defence in-house, they snared Timothy Liljegren, a big Swede once in the same conversation at the top of the 2017 draft class with No. 2 overall selection Nolan Patrick. The six-foot, 192-pounder was rated as high as top five at the start of the season by scouts, but an eight-week bout of mononucleosis impeded his progress this season in Sweden. He had five points in 19 games for the Rogle senior team and was snubbed for the Swedish world junior squad. That all mattered very little to assistant