There was another time when Dakota Joshua was quite high on the Maple Leafs’ radar.

They did, after all, draft the power forward in the fifth round in 2014, the same year William Nylander went eighth overall under former general manager Dave Nonis and chief amateur scout Dave Morrison.

“A real potential guy,” Morrison said the day they picked Joshua. “He’s very raw in a lot of different ways. He’s tall, he’s a very athletic kid, and we saw some flashes of real good skill towards the end of the year. His coaches couldn’t say enough good things about him.”

The potential that scouts saw in the college-bound forward, who attended Leafs development and rookie camps back then, came to fruition. Just not in Toronto.

After four years at Ohio State, Kyle Dubas was running the Leafs an

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