I'd bet money on it.I have zero insider knowledge here, and this post will likely get deleted, but I’d bet good money that our mods here are much more scrutinized than other teams mods. Just look at the amount of trolling that’s allowed to happen to us as regular posters on the main boards (and here when other fans get brave enough to click on over), then extrapolate that same treatment to the higher ups. You think every mod or admin is “impartial?” Please, I’d bet if a Leaf mod tried to remove inflammatory posts on the Bruins or Habs boards like Bruins mods did here they’d be stripped of their privileges and status without a second thought.
Mods on divisional rival boards (+ Oilers, Isles, etc.) explicitly make negative comments about Leaf fans. I've seen Habs and Bruins mods liking posts that are clearly flaming by definition. Yet as a Leaf fan you can't like a post without thread ban/infraction.
Our admins likely moderate in a way that's as neutral and by the book as possible. If you're a Leaf fan and you sneeze "that's why everyone hates Leaf fans". Then there's the global mod on our board that actively roots against the team pretending to be a mainboard white knight.