Fans everywhere are letting the Maple Leafs hear it, especially after the team was booed off the ice after their recent game 6 loss.
NHL insider Justin Bourne needed just four words to sum up the team’s recent troubles, a skid that has them on the brink of elimination.
“The absence of greatness,” Bourne wrote.
“It’s not that these two have been outright bad, of course. Yes, you can say they were bad-bad in the last game or two, but prior to that, the bulk of the narrative around them was “They may not be scoring, but boy, are they doing the little things right.” The underlying numbers liked them, opposing top players weren’t doing great, and so you could say the two were contributing to winning.”
“But even then, there was the rancid Game 5 in Round 1, with the chance to put an opponent away, where they couldn’t muster a push. There was Game 4 in Florida, where tight defence called for a superhero moment, but it seemed they left their tights in the phone booth. And this past Game 5 was as bad as it can get, to where that aforementioned absence of greatness has become a smell worth commenting on.”
The Maple Leafs were an overtime away from being up 3-0 in the series. Now, they must win two games in a row to save their once-promising season.
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“For Leafs fans, the fears must be becoming real that the highly touted “Core Four” era could go out with a whimper, and not a bang.”
Maple Leafs fans everywhere hope that this year can be different.
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