Wow, the Leafs win a game! Win another, and some will be talking about a parade route, like that Lewinsky fellow last year.
On the other hand, lose the next two games, and they probably will fire the coach, the GM, the President they just hired, and trade those big contracts for draft picks to start again.
That's the Leafs!
Actually, the only game I watched lately was that Boston game, and I did not have a chance to watch the following games, but I did hear about, and read the media.
One thing I read was absolutely true. Toronto, is the entertainment capital of Canada.
In my case, I did not even watch the last four Toronto Maple Leafs games, and I still managed to be entertained. LoL.
Since I did not watch any games, cannot comment on that. I looked at the standings and the Leafs are in 6th place in their conference. Last time I looked they were 3rd, but now they are 6th and hanging onto a playoff spot. For this team, that probably is where they probably should be.
Given the hysteria surrounding the team after those blowouts, there is some larger underlying issues on what kind of improvement can we expect out of this team. The psycho fans who flipped out, might see something we don't. Then again, maybe we see the same thing, it is just some fans are psycho, and definitely the Toronto media is bipolar. Bipolar pukes, to paraphrase a famous person with long white uncombed hair. That short guy really has a mouth. The Leafs should trade Shanny straight up for that guy, bring him back.
Basically, your best players, played for Wilson, and they fired him. Then they fired the GM, but the best players remained. The new coach Carlyle manage to get the team into the playoffs, and fell short with the same players. Tried again the following year fell short again. Then the team kept its best players and got rid of basically all of the bottom six forwards. Altered the defense too.
After all that, the team just seems to be marginally better. You can fire the coach again, and new guy will coach the team into the playoffs for one year, then we see the Blue & White disease come back into the lineup. A new coach can be the spark to get the team into the playoffs, but the year after that, we probably having the same conversation, and same psycho fans ditching their Leafs sweaters onto the ice. There's no point in replacing Carlyle with Carlyle.
So, we're still back at the same question of how to make this team better, at least more consistent.
In my view of the Leafs, Keon, Sittler, Gilmour, Sundin, that was the times the Leafs had decent teams. I guess with this market, you need that on ice leadership from the big center. Bozak is not the guy. Kadri still not ready for that, if he ever be.
Then again, those type of centers don't exactly grow on trees.
Guess we wait as Leafs fans for management to pull off another trade to land a center. In the meantime, we have to settle for the games and media entertainment.
Go Leafs Go!
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