Somehow, someway, up until yesterday at 2 PM, we were hoping Jake Gardiner would find a way to stay with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
He wanted to stay, the team wanted to keep him, and the best of the fans were all really hoping he’d come back.
Unfortunately, he signed with the Hurricanes for four years and $16 million.
Jake Gardiner and the Toronto Maple Leafs
This is a town that venerates Tie __ Domi and never accepted Mats Sundin as their savior, so the kind of people who don’t like Jake Gardiner don’t exactly have a history of rational fandom.