Leafs Draft Pick Transactions

From the 2009 draft through 2012, the Leafs made 14 of 29 selections in NHL Entry Drafts that were their own. That means, 15 picks were acquired, whether it was for a player, or just as a strategy to move up in the draft order.

I’ve been going over transactions over the Brian Burke regime. There’s too much for just one post, so I’ll break it up in two with an introduction here and get more in depth later this week.

This post will focus on the Maple Leafs draft pick transactions since November 29, 2008, the date Burke took over the team.

 

An interesting finding was that league-wide, from the period Burke took over as GM of the Leafs, the Ducks have made the most trades with 57.

Toronto accounted for an NHL high 11 deals with Anaheim, or 19% of the Ducks total trades.

For Toronto, who made 42 deals overall, over one-quarter of them (26%) involved Anaheim.

Other notable numbers in that time period include the Canucks and Panthers as trade partners six times (30% of Vancouver’s total trades 6-of-20), while the Rangers and Coyotes made five deals.

Burke stayed low key and just added a pair of 2nd round picks from trading away roster players in the first draft, but after that year, beginning with the Phil Kessel trade, Toronto used only two of their own draft picks and made selections on five acquired selections.

Out of the 42 trades, 20 revolved around—or included—a draft pick, with one forfeited during the Jonas Frogren contract fiasco.

Five deals between the Leafs and Ducks involved acquiring a draft pick from Anaheim.

Below are all the Leafs draft picks under Burke’s watch with a short description of any trade scenarios to acquire that pick.

Where a description appears, but the pick is blank, that signifies trading away of that pick altogether without replacing it.

Data provided by Pro Sports Transaction