I knew this series was going to come eventually. As a staff writer for both Pension Plan Puppets and Raw Charge, it’s been both awesome and terrible to cheer for the Maple Leafs and Lightning these past few years. Most of the awesome goes in the Tampa direction, most of the terrible in the Leafs direction when it comes to the playoffs. I thought this eventual series where my two hockey fandoms crossed would be in the second round sometime in the past four years, but it turns out it’ll be in the first round this year.
I really hope I don’t look narcissistic, but here is myself, a Leafs fan, interviewing myself, a Lightning fan, about the upcoming Leafs vs.