Worse, it was the Toronto Maple Leafs third elimination at the hands of the Bruins in their last four trips to the playoffs.
The worst part about this past season was that the Leafs were the better team, and if you replayed the series a million times, they would have won the majority of them.
But we live in the real world, and in the real world we are only concerned with results. Sure, it’s nice to know that the Leafs “should” have won, because it tells us that they were close, that their team is nearly as good, and that the hype surrounding them is real.