It’s a new season and the Maple Leafs have their fans fooled once again

Sep 28, 2026, 7:38 PM ET|Comments (0)

from The Globe and Mail — Hockey,

Let’s cast our minds back to the most recent nadir in Toronto Maple Leafs history – this past May.

That’s when they introduced their new GM, a guy who’d been run out of his one and only big league job and hadn’t had a sniff of the quality since. Those Leafs finished last in the Atlantic. They had the worst defence in the Eastern Conference. They’d experienced the playoffs as a distant flash of light on the horizon that flared up briefly in late February and then faded to black.

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