After all, Losers Even After Fifty Years isn’t an acronym that just any team can earn. The Toronto Maple Leafs have put their fans through decades poor decisions, bad trades and terrible draft picks.
So you can’t blame their fans for being skeptical.
The Toronto Maple Leafs – even though they played almost an entire season without at least one of Andersen, Matthews, Nylander or Gardiner in the lineup – are sixth overall in the league. But if you listen to Leafs radio or interact with Leafs fans on a regular basis, you wouldn’t know it.