The Toronto Maple Leafs are one of the worst franchises in professional sports, and that is what makes us love them so much.
It wouldn’t be fun to just win all the time and have a ton of success, and the Toronto Maple Leafs know this. That is why, for 55 years, they’ve teased, tantalized, and disappointed. Always doing just enough to keep you coming back, but never giving you satisfaction.
The errors of this franchise have long been established.
Harold Ballard was an idiot, and he ruined any chance of post-expansion success, the 70s were bad, but the eighties were an absolute joke and the team made horrible decision after horrible decision.