This.
It's not the team itself. It's the legions of fanboys both inside and outside the media that keep jamming their team down our throats. Do you know how far down you had to scroll on the TSN page to read about Galchenyuk's hat trick the other night? It was buried halfway down the page. And what was at the top? "Leafs Win Meaningless Game"
We also don't have every edition of Sports Centre leading off with how Carlyle juggled the lines at practice today. The Leafs are the only team I know that gets top billing on a national sports show even on days they don't play, ahead of other Canadian teams that actually do have games scheduled. This isn't the Leafs "fault" per se. They don't decide how or how much the media covers them. But they are the undeserving beneficiaries of all the exposure. There's only so much media exposure to go around and every second wasted on the Leafs is a second that doesn't go to Habs coverage so as far as I'm concerned the Leafs are stealing from us.
The Bruins certainly have their admirers among the media (HNIC in particular) but they don't get covered more than the Habs. The leafs, however, are another story.
In my books they will always be the greater evil, regardless of what they do on the ice.
