Every Leafs Season Since 2017 Follows The Same Trend

[LeafsNet]

Wrote this a week ago - GDT: - Sabres at Leafs 5:00pm

Every time this team has had an opportunity to take a commanding lead in the Atlantic, they squabble it.

This team just doesn’t have that IT factor in them. It’s not about the loss, it’s about the attitude. Go ahead and win tonight, but it would have been much better to win both games this weekend.

This season is mirroring every season for the past couple of seasons now.

.500 October
Amazing November
Bunch of Losses near Christmas and New Years in December and Early Jan
Recovery in February
.500 March/April

Finish third in the division and first round exit.

Rinse, repeat….


It’s scary how it’s happening again.

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[TMLBlueandWhite]

You forgot the annual post all-star game skid.

You know the one I'm talking about. Where they go something like 4-9-2 every year immediately after the break. It's a tradition for this team.

The trends you point out are both real and concerning.

It doesn't matter who the coach or GM is. Doesn't matter who the goaltender is. Doesn't matter who the Captain is.

They do the same damn thing every year.

It's almost like they come back fat and out of shape after the offseason and stink the entire month of October. Then when coach is one more loss away from being fired they go on a hot streak and have a playoffs spot cemented by American Thanksgiving. After that it's stat padding the rest of the year.

Until the playoffs, and they're no longer getting paid to play, at which point they usually wrap things up relatively quickly by losing.

 

[DitchMarner]

The Leafs do always look like world-beaters in November. I wonder what the reason for that is exactly. It might be that teams haven't yet tightened things up all that much and the playing style suits them. Then again, games are even more wide-open and higher-scoring in October, no? Why are they constantly about a .500 team in October?

I remember during the Kessel era, they got off to a great start (record-wise) a couple of times and then struggled when play really tightened up around the League late in the season.

 

[TMLBlueandWhite]

The Leafs do always look like world-beaters in November. I wonder what the reason for that is exactly. It might be that teams haven't yet tightened things up all that much and the playing style suits them. Then again, games are even more wide-open and higher-scoring in October, no? Why are they constantly about a .500 team in October?

I remember during the Kessel era, they got off to a great start (record-wise) a couple of times and then struggled when play really tightened up around the League late in the season.

I lost count of all the 18 wheelers that went off a cliff with Dion and Phil driving.

 

[Lightsol]

What I notice is that every time it looks like the Leafs might start building a decent lead on the rest of the division, that's when suddenly the penalty-fest games start where they spend most of it fighting off waves of opposing PP's...

They also seem to have a period every year, no matter what, where their goaltending falls apart.

 

[LeafsNet]

I lost count of all the 18 wheelers that went off a cliff with Dion and Phil driving.

I don’t know why this just randomly popped into my head, but does anyone remember OttawaGhost? He used to take Brian Burke press conferences and do hilarious voiceovers way back in 2009.


EDIT: I FOUND IT HAHAHA

 

[LeafsNet]

You forgot the annual post all-star game skid.

You know the one I'm talking about. Where they go something like 4-9-2 every year immediately after the break. It's a tradition for this team.

The trends you point out are both real and concerning.

It doesn't matter who the coach or GM is. Doesn't matter who the goaltender is. Doesn't matter who the Captain is.

They do the same damn thing every year.

It's almost like they come back fat and out of shape after the offseason and stink the entire month of October. Then when coach is one more loss away from being fired they go on a hot streak and have a playoffs spot cemented by American Thanksgiving. After that it's stat padding the rest of the year.

Until the playoffs, and they're no longer getting paid to play, at which point they usually wrap things up relatively quickly by losing.

Wrapping things up….lol. Sad but true.

 

[mjd1001]

The good news is they are in first in the division.

The bad news is there are, at the moment, legit 4 other teams that can catch and pass the leafs IF they somehow hit a mulit-game losing streak.

 

[Schennanigans]

There’s no killer instinct on the team. They’re missing something and could probably use a big addition or two.

 

[LeafsNet]

There’s no killer instinct on the team. They’re missing something and could probably use a big addition or two.

Yep, said this myself and last night was like clockwork.

I expect an OT lost against the Islanders and that’ll wrap up 2024.

 

[Racer88]

There’s no killer instinct on the team. They’re missing something and could probably use a big addition or two.

Until they change up some of the core nothing will give them killer instinct. Any addition may come with killer instinct but as soon as they see no consequences to the core when they have no killer instinct they will change quickly.

 

[HellasLEAF]

Wrote this a week ago - GDT: - Sabres at Leafs 5:00pm

Every time this team has had an opportunity to take a commanding lead in the Atlantic, they squabble it.

This team just doesn’t have that IT factor in them. It’s not about the loss, it’s about the attitude. Go ahead and win tonight, but it would have been much better to win both games this weekend.

This season is mirroring every season for the past couple of seasons now.

.500 October
Amazing November
Bunch of Losses near Christmas and New Years in December and Early Jan
Recovery in February
.500 March/April

Finish third in the division and first round exit.

Rinse, repeat….


It’s scary how it’s happening again.

They were trying to win a back to back with Matt Murray in the net. Not to mention Wash is no pushover. I don't think this moment defines the season anyway they at least won the first game back convincingly I think says something anyway.

 

[LeafsNet]

This season is mirroring every season for the past couple of seasons now.

.500 October
Amazing November
Bunch of Losses near Christmas and New Years in December and Early Jan
Recovery in February
.500 March/April

Finish third in the division and first round exit.

Rinse, repeat….


It’s scary how it’s happening again.

Damn

 

[LeafEgo]

Damn

February should be fun!

 

[Jojalu]

Until they change up some of the core nothing will give them killer instinct. Any addition may come with killer instinct but as soon as they see no consequences to the core when they have no killer instinct they will change quickly.

Simply not true. If you have killer instinct it doesn't go away if others don't have it.

It's not something you turn on and off.

 

[Mr_Fun]

I don’t know why this just randomly popped into my head, but does anyone remember OttawaGhost? He used to take Brian Burke press conferences and do hilarious voiceovers way back in 2009.


EDIT: I FOUND IT HAHAHA

How did I miss this when it first aired? lmao