This country could do with a shot of this after 30 straight years of not lifting the Stanley Cup
And yet there it was on the Internet on Saturday night, right over Globe and Mail reporter Marty Klinkenberg’s byline: “That would be Tampa Bay, the NHL’s elite team these past few years, and the Leafs, 19 years since they last won a playoff series, a sorry team that had gone 0-11 in series-clinching matches since 2013.
That one bounce put an end to the annual jokes about how, in Canada, the Leafs fall in spring. The team’s inability to get anywhere in the playoffs since they last won a Stanley Cup in 1967 – 56 years ago! – had become part of the country’s laugh soundtrack. Writer Gare Joyce had even penned a hilarious book back in 2013,
No sports team in Canada has ever drained as much emotion – both good and bad – as the Toronto Maple Leafs. They are theof hockey, with the largest spectator base by far, but one split sharply between those who worship and those who despise. has conducted 30,000 fan surveys over the past decade. The two founders, David Tyler of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Joe Cobbs at Northern Kentucky University, both doctorates in sports management, reached the conclusion that much of professional sports engagement comes down toThe flip side of this, of course, would be pleasure derived from another’s good fortune, but that has always been in short supply in Canada.
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