Fun fact: this song’s original title was “Stars Playing Leafs.”
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It’s safe to say that the Maple Leafs are the Stars, or at least some sort of weird, alternate timeline version of them. Perhaps they are the 2014-15 Stars, still looking for their first playoff series victory in a long while after an ahead-of-schedule appearance in the previous season’s playoffs.
The tie-ins are numerous, including the fact that those 14-15 Stars had just been bounced by Anaheim’s surprise playoff goalie, one Frederik Andersen, in the playoffs the year prior.
The comparison fits, to a degree.