The Toronto Maple Leafs are having a great season that is being ignored because of some unlucky playoff fails over the last couple of seasons.
Though they remain in competition for the President’s Trophy, as well as the Eastern Conference and Atlantic Division titles, only a perfect 82 and oh record would satisfy pundits and fans alike who revel in pretending that the Toronto Maple Leafs are a terrible team ran by an incompetent general manager.
It must be hard to admit you are wrong, otherwise the praise for this team would be unending – a Cup Favorite, with a top farm system, no bad contracts, locked-up stars, almost all off-season bets paying off, on pace for the best season in franchise history, Auston Matthews not just the MVP frontrunner but having one of the best individual seasons the NHL has seen in 20 years, and a recently added all-star-future-hall-of-fame defenseman.