Toronto Maple Leafs fans are known for overrating their own players to a ridiculous degree.
So how then can a player born locally and drafted by his hometown team become “underrated” when he plays for the Leafs?
Simple. We are spoiled!
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Maybe it’s just good karma for enduring decades of incompetence (Ballard, Fletcher the second time, Burke, Nonis, JFJ etc.), disappointments (Brian Berard’s injury, Gretzky’s highstick) or seeing hall of fame players that should have been Leafs in other uniforms (Lindros, Luongo, Rask, Niedermeyer), but the Leafs have been on a role lately.