The Toronto Maple Leafs play their 27th game tomorrow, which marks one-third of the season finished. Normally the first major opinionating on the state of a team, players and the league rolls out after one-quarter of the season is gone. But that seemed uninformative for the Leafs this year. The first 10 games were not much like the second 10 games in any way — quality, personnel, outcome, and they didn’t seem representative as a whole. That’s likely always true about some teams, and it shows how you can get tunnel vision, seeing only the team you watch all the time, and none of the others.
Faking it, making it, and who is really great in the NHL
