The Maple Leafs have a chance to create new memories after years of playoff misery. (reporterchris)
That will certainly be on the minds of many tuning in for Sunday night’s all-or-nothing Game 5 against theThis Stanley Cup qualifying series will immediately enter folklore in these parts if Toronto gets through. The odds of the Maple Leafs erasing a 3-0 deficit with less than four minutes to play and winning Friday’s game, after blowing their own 3-0 lead in an overtime loss 24 hours earlier, have been pegged at roughly 1-in-140,000.
“The feeling after the game was tremendous,” said Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe. “The amount of joy that I saw from our team is beyond anything I’ve seen from us.”Forget the organization’s larger history, the core of the current group feels the weight of just these last few years.has spoken of the “ups and downs” they’ve endured with consecutive playoff losses to Boston and a six-game defeat to Washington in 2017, and wanting to avoid writing the same old story.
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