Fans always believe in things about their team that likely aren’t true. Most of it is just opinion, or someone clinging onto a not totally impossible idea that’s nonetheless highly unlikely. But sometimes they’re just flat out wrong. Today I’m poking at three widely stated beliefs about the Leafs.
Mike Babcock plays the second power play unit way too much
This is a bit subjective because all you have to do is put “too much” on a sliding scale and it’s always true or false depending on your setting. But for a great deal of the season so far, fans have been seeing instances of the first power play unit (the unit of doom and despair) coming off with almost exactly one minute left in the penalty.