Contents

Foreword by Steve Dangle

Introduction

1. Jim Gregory’s Draft Legacy

2. The First Pick

3. Bruce Boudreau, Randy Carlyle, and a 1970s History of Coaches

4. From Amateur to Entry and “Big Daddy” Bob McGill

5. The Defections of the Ihnacak Brothers

6. Toronto’s First Draft…and First No. 1 Pick

7. The Gord Stellick Years and the Belleville Bulls Draft

8. From a Lost Draft Year to Developing the Leafs’ Lost Prospects

9. A Blockbuster Trade’s Forgotten Piece

10. The Latest Pick

11. The John Ferguson Jr. Era

12. The Luke Schenn Pick

13. How Tyler Biggs Led to Morgan Rielly and William Nylander

14. Inside the 2016 Draft Lottery with Brendan Shanahan

15. Jack Han and the Crossroads between Drafting and Developing

16. The Pandemic Draft Kid

Acknowledgments

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