The Leafs this year are entering an early Fall

My Leafs.  My Toronto Maple Leafs.  Who really knows what’s going on in the change room and on the ice for that matter?  Year after year, Leaf fans are disappointed again coming up short in the playoffs.  I for one haven’t watched the Leafs play since early January.  Right around when Carlisle got fired, I was off the bandwagon.  You have to wonder if all Leaf fans are like this, this just give up and wait patiently until the next season when some new management, coaching staff or players join the club.  Basically you pray the new guy the team hired can get the team to playoffs.  At this point, some people just might think the team purposely losses just so they’re that one spot closes to getting the number one pick.  I said to one of my fellow Leaf fans – my teacher – “did you see the game last night…what a heartbreaking win”.  That’s how I try to look at it because I want the Leafs to come in last place and get first round pick so we can have some hope to start off the season.  It’s especially hard to cheer for the home team when the team itself has thrown in their jersey for the season.  Maybe wearing a Leafs jersey backwards at a game of refusing to purchase Maple Leaf merchandise would be a better way of showing disappointment.  Buying a $200 jersey and throwing it onto the ice simply provides someone with a free jersey.  In the meantime, at least we have our Raptors to fall back on.