Even I can no longer be arsed to hate watch them anymore. I only watched part of last night's game while I was waiting for the Oilers game to start. Otherwise I've not watched more than 5 minutes of any Leafs playoff game. My joy of seeing this team fail so miserably and dramatically has been replaced by ennui. Even in defeat they no longer spark joy.
I still watch every minute of it but my spirit has slowly been crushed. It’s not just the loss of a stupid game. It’s my investment of what, 300+ hours per year into this team and then they get steamrolled at home in the biggest game of their lives? My phone is blowing up with taunts texted from all the wehaves that I play hockey with, and I haven’t even bothered to reply. Tired of the way they embarrass themselves and me with their performances. They have two games to fix this. If they don’t and Marner walks and we go into some retool or rebuild, I don’t think I have the energy to give a shit anymore.
Even I can't be bothered coming up with fresh material with which to taunt Leafs fans. My social media feeds are basically just a "greatest hits" album now. When you do nothing but run it back with the same core players every year for close to a decade and lose for essentially the same reasons every year for close to a decade, you eventually run out of things to talk about.
NOW it makes sense!
He did initially say the media was a reason though. He then backtracked months later and said people made too big a deal of it.
Years ago I made fun of it as an expansion team. Then I went there. Oh man, what an amazing city.
Who gives a shit about how he arrived at the Eichel number? The 3 playoff frauds on the right hand side of that graph are the ones you need to focus on.
Maybe because he felt that, unlike the Leafs, the Preds had an actual chance to get better?
How about any city that doesn't play country-western "music"?
