The Maple Leafs are 0-10 in closeout games since 2018. Now Toronto has two chances to begin to change its story. Two chances to begin to rewrite the narrative. The team will only be defined by failure until they’re not, writes jonassiegel.
. Those are the guys who will be remembered here most of all, for good or bad. That’s how the great players are judged. And rightly or wrongly, those 10 straight closeout game losses fall primarily on their shoulders.
Time and time again, to the Leafs’ detriment, it’s the star forwards, the highest-paid players on the team, who failed to come through — enough — in the big moments.It was only his third goal in those 10 closeout losses. A historically great scorer from the day he entered the league, Matthews failed to score in Games 5, 6, and 7 againstin 2021 when the Leafs fumbled a 3-1 series lead to an inferior Canadiens opponent.
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