Jun 29, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min · 18 segments
The draft is over — and the Leafs walked away with the best player in it. On this week's episode of *The Leafs Lab Podcast*, we start with a breakdown of the Leafs' draft class (1:50) before getting…
What are your thoughts, first of all, How would you rate – I'll be honest.
I'm not a prospects guy, so I'm going to leave this to you.
But how do you feel about the last basically 48 hours in Leafland or 72 hours?
Yeah.
So, I mean, I'm not a prospects guy also, so I only really rely on, like, Scott Wheeler and the guys that actually do this for a living for their analysis.
And everybody seems super high on the Leafs class, which is a positive thing.
Because at least Prospect Pipeline was not that great.
You know, you kind of only had Nyes, Cowan, in terms of young guys, Nyes, Cowan, AA, Hildeby, Danford.
You don't really know.
Yeah, exactly.
You know?
And then, yeah, so after those guys, then you really...
Those are like the kind of impact ones that are kind of on the horizon coming up soon.
And then you start getting to the wishful, hopeful territory.
And I know on this pod, we've had her talks about Corey prominent and if we actually like it or not, but he, even he was saying that apart from McKenna, like the Leafs got guys who will play in NHL.
Like he's pretty confident that they got a few guys who will play in NHL, which is good when you're picking 60th and 70th and things like that.
Yeah.
That's all you can really hope for is like, you're you, you, You take the swings early, early, I guess, but you need guys who will play in the NHL and you don't just want to have your pipeline filled of if he hits his peak potential, he's a third liner.
It's like, that's not, you need guys who are, you're pretty confident even if they're middle of the road for what their expectations will be, you might be able to get minutes out of them.
Yeah, and it was kind of an underrated storyline that we didn't really talk about it that much.
But one of AGM's priorities is rebuilding a pipeline.
And he had to do that because under True Living, they did not take that many good prospects.
What are your thoughts, first of all, How would you rate – I'll be honest.
I'm not a prospects guy, so I'm going to leave this to you.
But how do you feel about the last basically 48 hours in Leafland or 72 hours?
Yeah.
So, I mean, I'm not a prospects guy also, so I only really rely on, like, Scott Wheeler and the guys that actually do this for a living for their analysis.
And everybody seems super high on the Leafs class, which is a positive thing.
Because at least Prospect Pipeline was not that great.
You know, you kind of only had Nyes, Cowan, in terms of young guys, Nyes, Cowan, AA, Hildeby, Danford.
You don't really know.
Yeah, exactly.
You know?
And then, yeah, so after those guys, then you really...
Those are like the kind of impact ones that are kind of on the horizon coming up soon.
And then you start getting to the wishful, hopeful territory.
And I know on this pod, we've had her talks about Corey prominent and if we actually like it or not, but he, even he was saying that apart from McKenna, like the Leafs got guys who will play in NHL.
Like he's pretty confident that they got a few guys who will play in NHL, which is good when you're picking 60th and 70th and things like that.
Yeah.
That's all you can really hope for is like, you're you, you, You take the swings early, early, I guess, but you need guys who will play in the NHL and you don't just want to have your pipeline filled of if he hits his peak potential, he's a third liner.
It's like, that's not, you need guys who are, you're pretty confident even if they're middle of the road for what their expectations will be, you might be able to get minutes out of them.
Yeah, and it was kind of an underrated storyline that we didn't really talk about it that much.
But one of AGM's priorities is rebuilding a pipeline.
And he had to do that because under True Living, they did not take that many good prospects.
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