Good advice. Winning a Cup is so damn hard, some teams are competitive forever and still never get there like San Jose. It's just not a guarantee, you need so many things to go right and it's an absolute grind. We will probably never win one, so may as well enjoy the highs in between where possible.
We've all been so consumed with first round exit after first round exit, that we've completely forgotten how bleak all those non-playoff years were. Great point about San Jose. Or Buffalo. Or Ottawa. Columbus. The list goes on.
While this era of Leafs hockey, for me personally, has been the most difficult to stomach, it's certainly not the bleakest hockey we've seen from this organization in the past 30+ years. Enjoy the moments that warrant it. They are still 3-2 down, and will likely still lose the series, meaning we will all get our fill of off-season doom/gloom and tearing them apart.
But that's tomorrow's, or next week's problem.