The Toronto Maple Leafs just don’t have any luck, at least when it comes to the NHL Draft.

In a recent issue of the Toronto Sun, Mike Zeisberger had a one-on-one interview with Connor McDavid, who is all but assured to be selected first overall at the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. It’s just a matter of waiting at this point.

At this point in the NHL season, the Buffalo Sabres have the biggest chance at drafting McDavid. The Edmonton Oilers and Carolina Hurricanes have the next biggest chances. Now, I’m sure that McDavid would be happy to play in any of those cities, but in his interview with Zeisberger he just had to go ahead and say this about the possibility of him being drafted by the Maple Leafs.

“It’s pretty crazy to even think about…But that would be an absolute dream come true.”

Now, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard a future first overall pick being excited about the possibility of being drafted by Toronto. There were similar articles about Steven Stamkos and John Tavares back in 2008 and 2009. Any high-end prospect that came out of the Southern Ontario area has been linked to the Leafs if they were close to a lottery position.

This is what sucks about being a Leaf fan at the moment. McDavid looks like he will be a generational talent in the NHL, no matter what team he plays for. However, the Leafs look like they will have little chance to draft him. The Leafs are a bad team. It’s just that they can’t seem to be bad enough to get a good shot at him. Add that to the fact that there are four NHL teams that are purposefully tanking to get a chance at McDavid, and if not him, Jack Eichel.

Sure, the Leafs have had drafted some good players in the top ten in the past decade. Nazem Kadri, Morgan Rielly have made impacts with the Leafs already and it won’t be too long until William Nylander is plying his trade at the Air Canada Center.

However, none of those players grew up Leafs fans. None of them had an instilled passion for the team prior to being drafted. Nylander was born in Sweden and moved around a lot, his favorite team probably being whatever team his dad, Michael Nylander, was playing for. Rielly was born in British Columbia, so he was probably a Canucks fan. Finally, it was well-publicised that Kadri’s family were Montreal Canadiens fans.

Sure, the Leafs could still win the lottery this season, but if they are anywhere above the fifth-worst team in the NHL, there will be cries of it being rigged. The Leafs need a player like McDavid. The type of player that doesn’t come around every year. The type of player that can help accelerate a rebuild, even with a young roster.

Stamkos and Tavares have had impacts like that in Tampa Bay and New York, I would suspect that McDavid will at least have a similar impact, dare I say a bigger one. I’m not saying any of the other prospects are push-overs, because they’re not. The Leafs just need that sure thing right now. McDavid is that sure thing.

It’s just unfortunate that the Leafs probably won’t get the chance to make McDavid’s, and probably most Leafs’ fans, dream come true.