The Maple Leafs
Well being a Habs fan I am not sure I should write a blog about the disasterous leafs but what the hell I am safely located in Montreal. I lived in Toronto for four years during another sad era when even John Brophy coached the leafs. They were sad then and they are sad now. Not that I really care. The leafs in the very recent past had been on course to become another thuggish Bruins-like team with Brian Burke at the helm. They beat the hell out of Josh Gorges and Rene Bourque ( good things) and more or less ended George Parros's career. A few years back they took the Bruins to game 7 and were ahead 4-1 in game 7 before they crumbled. It has been downhill ever since. The leafs have never been the same since they traded away Frank Mahovlich. Superstars like Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, Wendell Clark, Doug Gilmour, Borje Salming, Eddie Belfour and Mats Sundin have come and gone but they were just not good enough. The leafs are about to go through another rebuilding phase and will