The Toronto Maple Leafs are coughing up yet another playoff series they should win. They’ve now lost 13 of the 14 games in the Auston Matthews era in which they’ve had a chance to eliminate an opponent. Five of those games have featured blown leads. Five have come in overtime. There’s been at least one in every year since 2018. And now it’s all happening again, in the same way, to the same group, building to Saturday’s inevitable Game 7 loss.
I know you know all that stuff. I just wanted to make sure any especially sensitive Maple Leaf fans had a chance to click away in horror before we went any further.