The Toronto Maple Leafs will be looking to exercise some demons beginning tonight.
Due to some pretty crazy circumstances – a pandemic, a frozen salary cap, some inopportune injuries, a 54 year losing streak, 17 years without a playoff win, and maybe even some standard choking – the Toronto Maple Leafs and their young core find themselves at a crossroads way earlier than anyone probably thought possible.
These should – by pretty much any standard – still be in the development years. And yet, because of five first-round losses seen through the lens of Absolutely No Context At All the Leafs are in a win or else….