Money can’t buy (the Leafs) happiness…

     
           Ever since October 7^th when the Toronto Maple Leafs took out the Montreal Canadians in a shocking 3-2 home opener victory, everyone has been saying that "The Leafs are going to win the Stanley Cup!" Surely this is just a passionate belief that the diehard Leaf fans have year after year. But how come every year we get more and more disappointed with the Buds? They haven’t made the playoffs since the 2003/2004 seaon... which is the same year that the black eyed peas released the song: where is the love.

The Leafs: currently holding down last place in the North East

               

           If Canada claims to be the largest hockey nation, its largest city is Toronto, and the richest team in the NHL is the Toronto Maple Leafs (I’m like 95% sure of those stats) why can’t we make the playoffs? It’s because we suck. Well… not we as in us, but we as in them.

           The first clear sign of failure is the goal tending. JS Giguere is currently ranked 27/30 goalies, and tied for last place in WINS column. Nice. I think the Leafs need to be proactive and pull Giguere (which means they’d play with an empty net. It’s worth a shot, pun intended). Or even if they dusted of some of their past ‘tenders they used to have like: Potvin, Belfour (although he might be drunk), or even Cujo they might have a chance.

           Even if they can keep the puck out of their net, they still can’t get points so it doesn’t matter. They don’t have a single player in the top 30 for points, assists, or goals (with the exception of Kessel, but his whopping 8 goals doesn’t counter his constant minus rating on the +/- scale).

I told you Ron wasn't sweet.

           And lastly, Ron Wilson isn’t sweet. In his two seasons coaching the Leafs he’s been responsible for records like 34-48 in 2009 and 30-52 in 2010 (those records his over time losses). So it’s now time to say “Hey Ronnie, things just aren’t quite working out, pack your stuff and GTFO.*” And if I can just go off on a bit more of a tangent here and say that when the Dallas Cowboys weren’t doing well this season, guess who got the boot?

           Most people who bash the Leafs are usually Senators fans, and most people who bash Senators are Leaf fans... but the reality is that I'm a Panther fan (Florida Panthers, not to be confused with Canadore*). AND they're doing just fine one spot ahead of the leafs in the eastern conference.

GTFO*- "Get the fun out"

Canadore*- "A College team, that is also has a better shot at playoffs than the Leafs.