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Beating the Toronto Maple Leafs In the Playoffs Is Bad Luck

By Cristian Battaglia

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JUNE 13: Members of the Vegas Golden Knights pose with the Stanley Cup after defeating the Florida Panthers to win the championship in Game Five of the 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Final at T-Mobile Arena on June 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JUNE 13: Members of the Vegas Golden Knights pose with the Stanley Cup after defeating the Florida Panthers to win the championship in Game Five of the 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Final at T-Mobile Arena on June 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) /
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TORONTO, ONTARIO - NOVEMBER 15: Joakim Nordstrom #20 of the Boston Bruins skates against the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Scotiabank Arena on November 15, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
TORONTO, ONTARIO – NOVEMBER 15: Joakim Nordstrom #20 of the Boston Bruins skates against the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Scotiabank Arena on November 15, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) /

The Toronto Maple Leafs Curse

2019- Boston Bruins

You may remember the Leafs and Boston series from 2019 as the series that got Nazem Kadri run out of town.  The Leafs star forward was suspended for game seven for the second year in a row, and it was costly.

The Leafs not only lost the series, but they were forced to move Kadri at the nadir of his value.  The Leafs couldn’t even take credit for pushing a veteran team to the brink because the franchise has lost so frequently that moral victories don’t matter anymore.

After the Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs in seven games in 2019, they went to face a Columbus Blue Jackets team that swept the President’s Trophy winning Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Bruins would win that series in six games and would then take on the Carolina Hurricanes who surged their way to the Eastern Conference Final after beating the reigning cup champs in the Washington Captials, and sweeping the New York Islanders.

Boston would yet again come out with the victory and advance to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2013. Their opponents… the St. Louis Blues.

The Blues would blare Gloria in triumph, beating the big-bad Bruins in seven games to win the franchise’s first ever Stanley Cup…  but more importantly, creating what I call, “beating the Maple Leafs curse.”

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