Monday FTB: What do the Toronto Maple Leafs and Star Wars have in common?

Photo by Kevin Sousa/NHLI via Getty ImagesThis has been a tough start to the year for the Leafs, both as a team and for a lot of individual players. It doesn’t really have to do with where they are in the standings, or with how they’re doing in the boxscores. But they’re taking a beating from all angles about not looking as dominant as we all hoped they’d be.

But, you know, hockey’s a sport. A game. And the players are human beings, who are capable of being monumentally stupid... but they can also be alright sometimes.

On Saturday night, this tweet started a firestorm:

It’s a sad story, one many people can empathize with. What started as a crappy birthday ended being pretty amazing, as current…