10 Ways to Get Your Toronto Maple Leafs Fix While There’s No Hockey

4. Get Creative with Twitter

While it isn’t a widely known practice, social media doesn’t have to be used just to argue that strangers are wrong.

Some good can come out of these platforms. Consider using your time of self-isolation to both connect with the  Toronto Maple Leafs and create something new.

To do so, you’ll need to find Leafs players on their personal social media accounts.

Once located, pull up random posts and create a fun backstory to help explain the meaning behind the player’s words. To create examples, I am using three tweets of which I don’t know the context in which they were posted.

The fun begins when trying to decide what made the player tweet. Let’s begin with a 2013 message from Auston Matthews.

Good chance Matthews was trying to share the punchline of a joke he made up. “What do angry academics like to do?”
“Yale”

I’m pretty sure that the message that Zach Hyman was spamming read something like, “How dare my trade to the Maple Leafs only be ranked the fifth-biggest of the decade.”

The spamming of course triggered his friend and teammate Mitch Marner to tweet a set of eyeball emojis.

https://twitter.com/Marner93/status/1013468288574255106

3. Throw Away $20

There’s a very easy way to feel like you’re at Scotiabank Arena. It doesn’t even take much effort to do. To make this work you’re going to need three simple ingredients.

• Beer (can or bottle)
• A glass
• $20 bill

Step 1
Remove a beer from the fridge

Step 2
Pour the beer in a glass

Step 3
Thow the $20 bill directly in the trash

Once complete, you should immediately feel like you’re downtown at the rink. Fear not kids, we’ve got a way that you can replicate that Scotiabank feeling at home too. Instead of beer, take a bottle of water. Twist off the top and then throw away five dollars. Oh, what fun!

Note: The results may vary; possibly because a bottle of water at the rink actually costs $5.75.