AUSTON MATTHEWS AND MONTY HALL

On the author's childhood streets, he played the role of Doug Gilmour, while his best friend alternated between Mats Sundin and Darcy Tucker. Anyone who follows the National Hockey League (NHL) knows that recently the Leafs have lost some of their luster -- but not for him, not now, not with Auston Matthews. The Leafs drafted the future superstar with the first overall pick in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft; he is phenomenally talented, and will no doubt become the face of the franchise. This article is not an exercise in blind faith, but rather a sobering reminder of what could have been, because the draft is an exercise in counter-intuitive probability. By examining one of the most famous problems in the history of probability -- the Monty Hall problem -- the goal is to appropriate the unlikelihood that allowed to them to procure the right to draft Matthews, as well as appreciate the benefit of counter-intuitive problems of probability in the mathematics classroom.