With Sunday’s win over the Flyers, the Maple Leafs have played their 41st game, and are half done. As of Sunday night, they are third in the NHL in points (tied with Carolina at 57), and third by points percentage, with New Jersey as the only eastern team close to them from below.
There is a serious risk the Leafs could overtake Carolina and be second to the Boston Bruins, and that might be hard to take for Leafs fans certain the team is going to lose every game, plays down to their opponent, can’t win when it counts, needs toughness and size and more goals and a fourth line centre and several other things or they’ll lose in the first round again, and Dubas will be fired, he should be fired now and Keefe is the worst, the absolute worst, and my god the fourth line, and.