Get started with amazing custom hockey jersey bulk orders today at Jerseys Made Easy: https://jerseysmadeeasy.com/pages/custom-hockey-jerseys?ref_code=legorocks99 Today we're going over Rhys Jessop's crazy idea that he brought up on Twitter, but that actually has a tremendous amount of food for thought. We're talking about Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner today, and how, if he was played as a defenceman, he could be as effective as the Vancouver Canucks' Quinn Hughes had he learned some proper gap control. This comes after the Toronto Maple Leafs' embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Columbus Blue Jackets in their 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs qualifying play-in series. The 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs are involving sixteen teams, which are the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens, Carolina Hurricanes, New York Islanders, and Columbus Blue Jackets in the East, and the Colorado Avalanche, St. Louis Blues, Vegas Golden Knights, Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, Chicago Blackhawks, Arizona Coyotes, and Dallas Stars in the West. The matchups are currently the Golden Knights VS Stars in the Western Conference Finals, and Lightning VS Islanders in the Eastern Conference Finals. Of the Conference Semi-Final matchups, the Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, Vancouver Canucks, and Philadelphia Flyers have been eliminated The eliminated teams of the 2020 NHL Playoffs from the qualifying play-in series are the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Nashville Predators, Minnesota Wild, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Florida Panthers. Teams eliminated from the first round of the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are the St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Arizona Coyotes, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Montreal Canadiens, Carolina Hurricanes, and the Washington Capitals. Mitch Marner was one of the top NHL prospects drafted out of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. The 2015 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows: 1st - Edmonton Oilers, Connor McDavid 2nd - Buffalo Sabres, Jack Eichel 3rd - Arizona Coyotes, Dylan Strome 4th - Toronto Maple Leafs, Mitch Marner 5th - Carolina Hurricanes, Noah Hanifin 6th - New Jersey Devils, Pavel Zacha 7th - Philadelphia Flyers, Ivan Provorov 8th - Columbus Blue Jackets, Zach Werenski 9th - San Jose Sharks, Timo Meier 10th - Colorado Avalanche, Mikko Rantanen 11th - Florida Panthers, Lawson Crouse 12th - Dallas Stars, Denis Gurianov 13th - Boston Bruins (from Los Angeles Kings), Jakub Zboril 14th - Boston Bruins, Jake DeBrusk 15th - Boston Bruins (from Calgary Flames), Zachary Senyshyn 16th - New York Islanders (from Pittsburgh Penguins via Edmonton Oilers), Mathew Barzal 17th - Winnipeg Jets, Kyle Connor 18th - Ottawa Senators, Thomas Chabot 19th - Detroit Red Wings, Evgeny Svechnikov 20th - Minnesota Wild, Joel Eriksson Ek 21st - Ottawa Senators (from New York Islanders via Buffalo Sabres), Colin White 22nd - Washington Capitals, Ilya Samsonov 23rd - Vancouver Canucks, Brock Boeser 24th - Philadelphia Flyers (from Nashville Predators via Toronto Maple Leafs), Travis Konecny 25th - Winnipeg Jets (from St. Louis Blues via Buffalo Sabres), Jack Roslovic 26th - Montreal Canadiens, Noah Juulsen 27th - Anaheim Ducks, Jacob Larsson 28th - New York Islanders (from New York Rangers via Tampa Bay Lightning), Anthony Beauvillier 29th - Columbus Blue Jackets (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs), Gabriel Carlsson 30th - Arizona Coyotes (from Chicago Blackhawks), Nick Merkley Quinn Hughes, the comparable used in this video, was drafted in 2018. The 2018 NHL Entry Draft saw even more top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The top 11 of the draft went as follows: 1st - Buffalo Sabres, Rasmus Dahlin 2nd - Carolina Hurricanes, Andrei Svechnikov 3rd - Montreal Canadiens, Jesperi Kotkaniemi 4th - Ottawa Senators, Brady Tkachuk 5th - Arizona Coyotes, Barrett Hayton 6th - Detroit Red Wings, Filip Zadina 7th - Vancouver Canucks, Quinn Hughes 8th - Chicago Blackhawks, Adam Boqvist 9th - New York Rangers, Vitali Kravtsov 10th - Edmonton Oilers, Evan Bouchard 11th - New York Islanders, Oliver Wahlstrom Twitter: @LR99Gaming Portfolio: http://giopalermo.ca/ Twitch: legorocks99 Hi. I'm "Gio Palermo", also known as "legorocks99" ("legorocks99Gaming", "LR99Gaming", or "LR99"). I post video game commentaries on YouTube revolving around "hockey", with a primary focus on "Vancouver Canucks", "Montreal Canadiens", "Detroit Red Wings", and top "NHL prospects" topics. These videos are uploaded with "NHL 20" gameplay in the background. I enjoy making these videos and I hope that you enjoy watching them! I am also a graduate of the BCIT Radio Arts & Entertainment program, and this YouTube channel is an essential part of my radio portfolio.