While that’s equal parts melodramatic and sad, Leafs fans everywhere are hedging tonight’s outcome with reassuring refrains like, “we’re getting a good young player no matter what” (true), while secretly throwing up into a bucket in the minutes before Bill Daly reveals the cards. Does tonight’s result totally make or break the rebuild? Of course not, but we all know there is a lot riding on the dumb luck of the draw tonight.
To his credit, Brendan Shanahan has done his part to fix the Leafs’ juju by eradicating the Keon curse this past season, but he correctly points out the timing for the NHL’s lottery rule change — new this year, dictating that last place only guarantees the fourth pick — is terrible (tinfoil hat wearers among us might even call it suspicious):
My timing is terrible!