Categories: just-life
Date: 12 October 2009 23:53:05
Considering that I managed to oversleep and get to work late today (well, yesterday) you may be wondering why I might be up and online at such a late hour?? Well, the reason I'm up now is because over in Canada (well, New York tonight) it's still early and my Maple Leafs are currently loosing... yet again.
What makes it slightly worse is that worth at nearly half a billion dollars the Leafs are the most valuable hockey team in the world. They are one of the original six teams that made up the NHL and have won the Stanley Cup second out of all teams (beaten only by Montreal).
Considering how passionate the city, the history and being Canada, the country you'd have thought that somewhere along the line they'd have been able to put together a team that can actually play.
However they have managed to fail make the postseason for the last five years. In fact, they have failed to win the Stanley Cup since the '66/'67 season and have made the wonderful start to this season of 0-3-1* and despite just scoring at the end of the first period at Madison Square Gardens (still 2-1 down though) I just have this feeling it's going to be 0-4-1 and we're going to carry on proping up the bottom of the league.
* - for those who don't know these refer to 'wins-losses-overtime losses' with a win = 2points, loss = 0points and an OT loss = 1point.