The Toronto Maple Leafs lost another opening series and have yet win a playoff round since 2004.
The Toronto Maple Leafs may be legal drinking age by the time they actually win a playoff series.
It’s been 16 years since anyone has seen the Leafs advance past round one.
Every single year, especially for the past three, is the exact same.
Training camp is filled with optimism because the team has so much talent. They struggle midway through the season, don’t address it at the NHL Trade Deadline and follow it up by losing a series they probably should have won in the first round.
It’s incredibly disappointing having to watch this team year-after-year.
The highs aren’t even that high, compared to the lows.
The lows are a kick to the stomach and the highs are two seconds of joy, followed by “what bad thing is going to happen next?”
As Leafs fans, it’s a tease every season. Auston Matthews almost won the Maurice “Rocket” Richard trophy but they still couldn’t win one round?
Over the past two decades, a number of Big Four sports franchises with long title droughts have got the monkey off their back and won, but that can’t be said about Toronto.
The Leafs do what they do every year and give us hope, then let us down.
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