Like most people reading this, I’ve been a Leafs fan for a while, which means I’ve seen my fair share of unsuccessful hockey teams. This season, ‘unsuccessful’ is one of the more charitable words we could use to describe the Maple Leafs. Rooting for a team that sucks is something we’re all used to. Rooting for a team that sucks when they were supposed to be good is not.
Let’s get one thing out of the way. Almost no one expected the Leafs to be a straight up bad team through nearly 30 games of the regular season.