The Toronto Maple Leafs were eliminated by the Boston Bruins in game seven for the second time in a row last spring.
Worse, it was the Toronto Maple Leafs third elimination at the hands of the Bruins in their last four trips to the playoffs.
The worst part about this past season was that the Leafs were the better team, and if you replayed the series a million times, they would have won the majority of them.
But we live in the real world, and in the real world we are only concerned with results. Sure, it’s nice to know that the Leafs “should” have won, because it tells us that they were close, that their team is nearly as good, and that the hype surrounding them is real.
But that isn’t the same things as getting it done. So we must ask ourselves, have the Toronto Maple Leafs done enough to pass the Bruins and Lightning this season?
Not just beat them in the playoffs, but can they finish ahead of them in the standings?
That is the question we posed to our staff for the debut of the 2019-20 Editor in Leaf Roundtable.