Dear Toronto Maple Leafs,
Our love affair has been an ongoing one. Besides the Mighty Ducks and Red Wings (loves which occured through accident and peer pressure), you were one of my first hockey loves. You were there for me as a scrawny 15 year old, yelling at the inanimate box score as Philadelphia dispatched you from the playoffs in the second round, in what turns out to be the last time we saw you there.
Now Brian Burke’s taken the helm and the HMAS Leafs seems to be finding its way back on course, or so it seemed.
The pre-season brought glimpses of hope to Leafs Nation. Several come from behind victories and victories in their own rights, dominating displays of pugnaciousness and truculence as Burke had promised and fans actually started to believe it’d all turn around.
Count me as one of those people. This “new” version of the Toronto Maple Leafs had me excited, eager even for the new season.
Turns out? Let down. Complete and utter let down and failure. So far atleast.
However, being a doomsayer less than 5 games in is totally naff a fact that the TSN staff don’t seem to understand. In fact, the TSN staff were already asking if the Maple leafs defence were overhyped 20 minutes into the first game of the season, and within two games, had already created a full blown goaltending controversey.
So you haven’t won a game yet. So you’re sitting in absolute last place in the league. So your fans are already once again alternately calling for a lynch mob or like you, pinning their hopes on a scruffy, monosyllabic painfully shy Wisconsin kid (FYI that’s Phil Kessel if you live under a rock, and haven’t ever witnessed him give an interivew).
Find a goalie who can keep it together. Get your defence to remember what defence is. Find some forwards (maybe that College should get a go again).
And really?
It’ll all be okay Toronto. It’ll all be okay.
And if it isn’t? Well… what’s new?
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