The Toronto Maple Leafs make for a great study in narratives vs reality.
For example: The Toronto Maple Leafs are an excellent playoff team that has proven they can win in the post season by being the better team in 90% of their playoff games in this era. They have been among the best teams of all time at coming from behind in the playoffs, and have deserved much better results than they’ve gotten.
But they are still talked about as a team that needs to play the right way, and perform when it counts, and play Playoff hockey – even though that is all B.