Several seasons have passed, yet, “it was 4-1” still hangs over Toronto.
While the Maple Leafs organization as a whole has clearly moved past that night, it’s still out there in the memory of fans. That loss to the Boston Bruins in game 7 of the first round of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoff has become a meme across all of NHL fandom. To this day, nearly four years after that game, “it was 4-1” alerts are tweeted out, and hand wringing comments appear on SB Nation hockey sites when a team finds themselves in a position to lose a game which they were earlier winning 4-1.