Big Read: The 82-game dress rehearsal has wrapped — but this is no time to party. The show is about to start, for real. These Toronto Maple Leafs are either doomed or due as they enter the playoffs. (lukefoxjukebox)
After turning in the best regular season in franchise history, the Toronto Maple Leafs are either doomed or due as they enter the playoffshe joy of the greatest regular season in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 105 years of existence will not be poured neat.
“For better or worse, I believe in this group. I believe that they are going to get it done and that they are going to win. … I am willing to bet everything on that.” Perhaps most importantly, they tackled the elephant in the boathouse. They unravelled their 3-1 series collapse to the lowest-seeded team. “Yeah, 100 per cent,” Wayne Simmonds says. “That was one of the main things in going to Johnny’s house. We had a great dialogue with one another — and we kept it real. We got to address what happened last year head-on, and we’re not hiding from it. It’s for us to learn from and get better and to mature as a team.
“Almost to a man, we’ve had guys having career years here offensively and defensively. I think we’re feeling good.” Fifteen years have passed since Spezza, 38, went to the Stanley Cup Final with the Ottawa Senators. He doesn’t have a contract for next year, and it’s not a crazy stretch to imagine this chance as his last. As the last for this Leafs core, as currently constructed. As Dubas’s or Keefe’s last in this city. “I was very focused last year. But I think you learn something from every year, and you learn something from every loss, and we feel like we blew a great opportunity last year.
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