Led Zeppelin once sang about “Going to California, with an achin’ in my heart.”
If you’re a Leafs fan, you’ve likely echoed that sentiment after seeing the team earn just one of a possible six points during their three-game swing to the Golden State.
Yes, it was a disastrous trip. And, in many mays, it’s what you should have expected, assuming you have been paying attention to this team for the past decade.
Look, no one is saying that the Matthews-Marner-Babcock led Leafs aren’t fun to watch. If anyone in September would have said that the team would be on the bubble for a playoff spot at just past the quarter-pole of the season, come March, the playoff-starved city of Toronto would be salivating like a Pavlovian dog.