Along with trading veteran Brandon Carlo to the St. Louis Blues, the Leafs opened the second day of the NHL Draft by selecting two defencemen with intriguing resumes.<\/p>\n
Toronto used the 60th-overall pick in the second round to take Kitchener Rangers blue-liner Alexander Bilecki.<\/p>\n
The Mississauga, Ont., native helped the Rangers win an OHL title and the Memorial Cup in his second major-junior season. The six-foot-one Bilecki had nine goals and 20 assists in 66 regular-season games before adding two goals and nine assists in 18 OHL playoff games for an older Rangers team.<\/p>\n
In the third round (69th overall), the Leafs selected Edmonton Oil Kings star Ethan MacKenzie, who finally was taken in his third year of eligibility.<\/p>\n
MacKenzie had a breakout season, earning a spot on the Canadian world junior team. He had 22 goals and 36 assists for 58 points in 59 WHL regular-season games.<\/p>\n
MacKenzie is slated to play NCAA hockey at powerhouse North Dakota next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Along with trading veteran Brandon Carlo to the St. Louis Blues, the Leafs opened the second day of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-765389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}