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The Stanley Cup has been won by the Carolina Hurricanes.
And now, in multiple ways, the Toronto Maple Leafs are on the clock.
One of those is the more common use of the term: the NHL Draft.
The Leafs won the No. 1 pick in the lottery. When the draft actually arrives later this month, Toronto will be on the clock first.
The assumption at this point is that they'll take the young Canadian winger Gavin McKenna. He's stood out for the Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL) and at Penn State (NCAA), and has been the presumed top pick in this draft for a while now.
New GM John Chayka will have a big call to make with that top pick, and he can't afford to get it wrong.
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The Maple Leafs are also on a different clock, too: They still need a head coach.
It feels like Toronto has interviewed pretty much every candidate that could possibly exist, and they still haven't made a hire.
Clearly, this deliberate, drawn out process is what they wanted, but it leaves the Maple Leafs without a leader behind the bench with not long until the draft.
It's not that a new head coach would override the GM on a draft pick, but it makes sense to have everyone in lockstep.
In this first week after the playoffs conclude, it would make a lot of sense for Toronto to finally make a hire.
At the pace they've been going, though, it's developed into a situation that'll be believed when it actually happens.
Until then, there's still a lot to be solved with the Maple Leafs.
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