The way Leafs fans pimped Quinn like he was some genius invited mocking. When Quinn was coaching Vancouver and beating the Leafs in the Conference Finals there weren't any Leafs fans who thought he was a genius then. Apparently he only became intelligent when he stepped behind the Leafs' bench. Of course, the results were the same as always: failure.
Then Leafs fan started the "final four" narrative which was heretofore never used in a hockey context to make their consistent playoff failure seem like a success because they had made it to "the final four" or that they lost to the eventual Cup champions, as if that mattered.
Leafs fan is always clutching at straws, trying to latch on to even a tiny bit of success that they can inflate into something bigger than what it really is. Whoever coined the phrase "Statistics are for losers" definitely had Leafs fan in mind.
But unlike delusional fans from other teams, we could not escape Leafs fan because they had a willing accomplice in the "national" media which fawned over every small sign of progress from the Leafs like doting parents. We had the early 2000's Leafs forcibly rammed down our throats. That's why people like me are quite happy to see the Leafs miss the playoffs 9 of the past 10 years. It's what you deserve for forcing me to witness your team's crapulence every Saturday night for years on end and for no good reason.
And if the Jays fall short I will happily tap-dance on their corpse too. I moved 4000 kms away from Toronto so that I wouldn't have to put up with all their self-important BS but there's no escape so I have to fight back. The raw sewage being dumped in Montreal is a trickle compared to the tsunami of liquid fecal matter coming from the Toronto sports media these days as they attempt to turn the Blue Jays into the second coming of the 1927 Yankees.