Over the past five games, the Toronto Maple Leafs have earned a total of six points, beating the Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals and Montreal Canadiens, while dropping contests to the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers.
Winning three out of five games sounds great, but the reality is the Maple Leafs are still 4-5-1 in their past 10 games and a paltry 11-14-4 on the season, which puts them in 28th place in a 30-team league.
After a nice 4-0 start to the season, the Maple Leafs struggled to find their consistency. The Leafs have been shut out a league-leading five times, have struggled on defense, offense and, most recently, between the pipes.
The Fans have responed by letting the team hear the boo-birds on more than a few occasions and, more recently, waffles have been thrown out onto the ice!
Fans have called for head coach Ron Wilson to be fired, people are questioning general manager Brian Burke’s moves and Phil Kessel was recently called out by his coach—deservedly so.
It’s often far too easy to be negative about your hockey team when they are losing. While I would be the first one to agree that the Maple L ...
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Toronto Maple Leafs: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
December 13th, 2010 by Mark Ritter Leave a reply »
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