Ha! It's like we all forgot the one simple fact....
Good things don't happen to leaf fans.
It'll be Arizona or Buffalo.
Exactly! Was thinking the same thing.Every year, some draft pick or big time UFA says this. The draft pick doesn't isn't there when it's our turn, the free agent doesn't even entertain our offers.
More or less?Didn't Tavares say basically the same thing?
Here's what will happen. The bottom six teams will be 1) Buffalo 2)Edmonton 3)Arizona 4)Carolina 5)Toronto 6)New Jersey. TSN draft special here comes Daly with the announcement. Number 5 belongs to the Carolina Hurricanes. Leafs nation collectively craps there pants. Arizona 4,Edmonton 3 and Buffalo 2. And the 1st overall pick goes to................The New Jersey Devils.
I looked at the title and immediately began contemplating the meaning of my existence.
Why oh why do we do this to ourselves, fellow Leaf fans? Why?
"Playing for the Leafs would be a dream come true"
... except after a few years in New York, Tampa Bay, or some other hockey wilderness.
Then the dream disappears for another 20-or-so years until said player is over-the-hill and wants to fulfill his childhood dream before retiring.
That was why Eric Lindros was so awesome, he did everything in his power to put on the Maple Leafs uniform. Too bad there was a guy name Bob Clarke standing in the way.