Maple Leafs will end their Playoff Drought
Did you know…. The Toronto Maple Leafs are the only NHL team to go the entire seven-year stretch between Gary Bettman’s most recent lockouts without qualifying for a playoff spot? Yep… not one time were they one of the best eight teams in the Eastern Conference. Barring an incredible late-season collapse over the next two weeks, the Maple Leafs are going to end the longest playoff drought in team history and qualify for the postseason for the first time since the 2003-04 season.
To commemorate the end of an era (and what a beautiful era it was), here’s last year’s hilarious rant from CBC’s Rex Murphy on The National weighing in on the Maple Leafs who had taken out a full page ad apologising to their fans for being losers:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RxKgV0xhr5o[/youtube]
Comment from Nick
Time April 13, 2013 at 8:42 AM
I absolutely loved this clip… my 2 favorite lines:
“… 45 years out of the finals – longer than it took the trees to grow, that supplied them the wood, to make the hockey sticks, they don’t score with.”
and
“Sorry is not something you get to say. Sorry is something you’ve become.”
God bless you Rex!!!!