If they keep playing like they have the last couple months and our goalies don’t stand on their heads it certainly is possible. Personally I’d be okay with missing if it meant getting away from the hopeless core because if they run it back again with a hefty raise for Marner I’m tapping out anyway.
The Leafs go through these cycles every season. When everyone thinks they are done, they roll off four or five wins in a row and the bandwagon fills up again. I imagine it will be no different this time around. At the same time, teams like Ottawa and Tampa will cycle through 3 or 4 game losing streaks. Remember a couple of weeks ago when everyone was stroking Montreal's knob? Then they promptly rolled off 4 losses in a row. At the end of the season, it will be Toronto, Florida and Tampa in the top three spots in the Atlantic.
Still remember one of his first times in Toronto, when we won the game and he stayed out on the ice watching the Leaf players celebrating and salivating at the idea that he could one day join them.
Major reason? Around the league or just those 4 small market teams?
And as we’ve seen for 8 yrs the core doesn’t like playing in prime time.
