As longtime readers will be aware, I am a bad person. While my first and greatest joy in hockey is always the Leafs doing well, close behind is the joy of laughing at the failures of others. There were times in the past where this was pretty much the only joy I got out of hockey, so I’m very practiced at it.
While the Leafs are now, at the least, solidly average, this has so far been a really tremendous season for laughing at teams I don’t like. In fact, I would say the four teams in whose failure I was most invested have all failed impressively this year.