With the obituaries already written and the pink slips all printed, the Toronto Maple Leafs have flipped the script. After dropping three of the first four games and losing their best player in the process, the Leafs have gutted out a pair of 2-1 wins to force the Bruins into a nightmare Game 7.
Are you surprised? You shouldn’t be.
The conventional wisdom is that this version of the Leafs team disappears when the going gets tough. But the conventional wisdom is wrong.
Never let facts get in the way of a narrative, I suppose, but let’s think back to some times during the Shanahan era when this Leafs team had their backs against the wall.