Another year full of promise ending in destruction: that is the legacy of the Toronto Maple Leafs. On Sunday evening, the Leafs laid their egg of the 2024-25 season for a sold-out crowd in Toronto while they fell 6-1 in the Florida Panthers, ending in the Eyir season in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Crashen is perhaps par for the course for the Maple Leafs, but historical No one In Professional Sports, losing the play -offs has mastered, just like the Toronto Maple Leafs. On Sunday evening the ninth season in a row marked the team that you made the play -offs, only to be eliminated in the first or second round. It is now also a stunning 23 years ago that the team reached the final of the conference.
If that sounds bad and promise that you are about to get a lot, a lot.
When we look at the large professional sports in North America, the NFL, NBA, MLB, WNBA and NHL are here the teams that have made most times in the last 50 years without actually winning a championship.
- NFL: Minnesota Vikings – 26 Playoff berths, 6 Conference Championship berths, 1 Super Bowl Locals, 0 Championships
- NBA: Atlanta Hawks – 31 berths Playoff, 2 Championship berths Conference, 0 NBA Finals berths, 0 Championships
- MLB: Milwaukee Brewewers – 10 berths Playoff, 2 League Conference Championship berths, 1 World Series berth, 0 Championships
- WNBA: Connecticut Sun – 17 Playoff berths, 11 conference championship berths, 2 WNBA Finals berths, 0 Championships
- NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs – 32 Playoff berths, 6 conference championship berths, 0 Stanley Cup Finals berths, 0 Championships
One could make an argument that the Vikings are the most sad team in Pro Sports, certainly – but at least they made it Unpleasant The super bowl four times alone to drop their hope. Football is also a single-game elimination format means that everyone can have a bad day and get bunced, when the best-of-seven series Tuly Tuly Tuly gives a good team optional to fight TEP optioners to fight thruch.
And yet the Leafs just fail.
Of their 36 Playoff performances since 1968, the Leafs only passed the first or second round six times. That means that you could be a 57-yare-done Toronto fan, and during your entire lifespan you have made the play-offs 63% of the seasons, but you have only given you a feeling that you could win it all 16% of the time.
Not only this, but during the same span, the Leafs 1st or 2nd in the Eastern Conference at the end of the regular season ended 10 times. On 10 separate occasions they were one of the best teams in hockey to let everything slip through their fingers. In the first 50 years of their existence, the Leafs won 12 Stanley Cup championships, they were regularly closed for the Cup Finals, and in the last 50 years it was a wasteland.
If you take into account the weight of importance that Hockey has in Toronto, the legacy of Brilliance that the Leafs had from 1917 to 1967, and the expectation this team you have every time they get on the ice, it is clear: no one in sports is so gifted with the Maple The Maple Leaf.
Sorry.
