It’su200b another year withoutu200b a Stanleyu200b Cupu200b foru200b Canada butu200b atu200b least theu200b hockey gods didn’tu200b toy with usu200b foru200b too long thisu200bu200b time. Four of the country’s seven teams didn’t make the playoffs at all and the three that did all made first-round exits. When the Maple Leafs are your longest surviving team, it hasn’t been a great year.
And if we’re being honest, most Canadian fans are probably fine with that. The whole national Cup drought thing has always been the sort of narrative that seems to be more important to the media than to most of the fans.