4 of the last 5yrs Toronto lost to a team who made it to the Stanley Cup Finals

[Orfieus]

2019 - Toronto losses to Boston who lose in the Stanley Cup finals
2020 - DNQ
2021 - Toronto losses to Montreal who lose in the Stanley Cup finals
2022 - Toronto losses to Tampa who lose in the Stanley Cup finals
2023 - Toronto losses to Florida who ... ???

Click to read more...

 

[mcleex]

Is this supposed to make us feel better about our failures

 

[IPS]

We lose to the team that loses to the team that wins the cup.

That means we're elite?

 

[Trapper]

We lose to the team that loses to the team that wins the cup.

That means we're elite?

We’re something that’s for sure.

 

[ULF_55]

Pond hockey doesn't take much out of you?

 

[Eternal Leaf]

The ultimate kingmakers.

Treliving will fit right in.

 

[Budz]

Don’t worry big Jim Treviling will save all with the same rotten core next year.

 

[mikeyz]

Ohhhh here we go.

So, translation to the TS

”Run it back”

 

[WillyC]

Yeah, that’s some crazy bad luck… wonder if bet99 or 365 had odds on that?

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

It ultimately means nothing but it is a bizarre stat. You can even expand on this and say how 5/7 of the teams that beat us in the playoffs went on to lose to the eventual Cup Champions.

2017 Washington beat Toronto but lost to eventual champs Pittsburgh
2019 Boston beat Toronto, lost in Finals
2020 Columbus beat Toronto, lost to Tampa who won the Cup
2021 Montreal lost in Finals
2022 Tampa lost in Finals


2023 Florida TBD

 

[Buds17]

And we finally lost to the potential runner-up later than usual this year too!...I could really go for Toronto being in a/another SCF!!!

 

[Canadian Finn]

we're the best losers.
I hops this type of culture leaves with Dubas.

 

[Nineteen67]

That one easy series where not everyone get bruised and beat up seems to be the formula.

 

[Jmo89]

At best it just shows how soft our core is. They'll have flashes where they can win a game here or there, but they struggle to elevate their game for 4/7 wins.

They finally did it against Tampa and then reverted right back to same old same old.

 

[Gabriel426]

Only TO fans and medias will come up with useless crap like this and think Leafs are good, our boys are great, let’s run it back because sooner or later, they will get he bounces…..

 

[ToneDog]

Run it back. Maybe one year we can lose to the SCF in the 3rd round.

 

[mikeyz]

I'm honestly convinced that if the Leafs played anybody else other then Tampa in the 1st round this year, they would have lost.

 

[AvroArrow]

5 out of the last 5 years, Toronto was not good enough to win the Stanley cup. Losing to a cup champion or a finalist shouldn't be looked at, as some sort of trophy or accomplishment.

It's a neat stat, but the most important takeaway is that this team wasn't the best team in either of the last 5 years. I'm not going to pretend like this means something, because it really doesn't.

 

[Squiffy]

That one easy series where not everyone get bruised and beat up seems to be the formula.

The effort to get past the Leafs shows them the level of buy-in required to advance!

I don’t actually believe either narrative, just, you know, it’s that easy.

 

[TheGreatOne11]

I was waiting for this thread. I honestly don't know how to feel about that stat. If you take it seriously, its frustrating. Doesnt matter though, we never have enough juice to get to the finish line, always a better team. The hockey gods have smiled upon Florida this year.

I mean what Bobrovsky and Tkachuk are doing right now is down right magical. It would be nice if it could be us sometime.

 

[Trapper]

Run it back. Maybe one year we can lose to the SCF in the 3rd round.

You’ll be older than the guy in your profile picture for that.

 

[Canadian Finn]

Tkachuk wouldn't have fit the culture dubas built here.

 

[LeafEgo]

So we've only lost to losers and we're the easiest path to go deep?

Bit of a buzkill OP.

 

[SnizzNasty88]

Lol, is it just me or is this 4 out 5 years thing like, extremely irrelevant? So what? Is this supposed to be some sort of accomplishment or something? Who cares?

 

[LeafEgo]

That one easy series where not everyone get bruised and beat up seems to be the formula.

The first round is where teams take the most impactful damage too.