The Toronto Maple Leafs got off to a weird start to this year’s NHL season.
The Toronto Maple Leafs were playing well, but they got some weird results early on, losing to such bottom feeders as Anaheim, Phoenix, San Jose and Montreal.
But of course, for a team with so many star players, this was just a blip on the radar, and the Leafs eventually evened out and have been destroying the competition ever since.
In fact, as I write this, the Leafs haven’t lost a regulation game in nearly a month. Should they beat Detroit tonight (last night as you’re reading this) they will have gone the entire month of November losing just once in regulation (it was to Pittsburgh, who they have since beaten twice).
It should be pretty clear at this juncture that the Leafs are the NHL’s best team, and that they are by far the NHL’s best Canadian Team.
That isn’t going to stop us from having a good old-fashioned countedown anyways.
So here, for your viewing pleasure, are the NHL’s Canadian Teams, counted down in reverse order, from worst to best.
As always, the context matters more than the standings, which should be obvious to everyone since, if the standings told us all we needed to know, there would be no need for any analysis.