Judd Brackett departed the Minnesota Wild after five seasons as Director of Amateur Scouting. The Maple Leafs received permission to interview him and are expected to hire him as an assistant general manager. Brackett previously served five years with the Vancouver Canucks as Director of Amateur Scouting, building a reputation for maximizing mid-to-late-round picks. His draft work included a 2024 trade-up with the Philadelphia Flyers to select defenseman prospect Zeev Buium, later tied to the Quinn Hughes trade, and a 2021 trade-up for Jesper Wallstedt. With the Wild, his only top-10 selection came in 2020, when he selected Ma.
Read at Editor In Leaf
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]