About Time!

After losing game, after game, after game, the Toronto Maple Leafs decided to give J.S. Aubin a shot between the pipes. And it has been working so far. The Leafs, although still clinging for dear life to their hopes of making the playoffs, have won three straight games. Their latest victory was against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night. Nik Andropov contributed two goals to the five goals scored by the Leafs in the first period. The game was pretty much over after the first six minutes of the game, where the Leafs scored four unanswered goals. In fact, those goals, followed by three more, went unanswered for the entire sixty minutes of play. They went on to blow away the Sabres with a final score of 7-0. This is just the third time this season that the Leafs managed to shut out their opponent.

Seems that the Leafs do well when they're not under pressure. Surprise surprise. How many times have we seen the Leafs crumble and give up during the first or second round of the playoffs? Now that it seems nearly impossible for them to make it to the post seaons, they're unstopable. Pat Quin is better off telling his team on the first day of the season "sorry everyone, but we can't make the playoffs this season." Then bam. You got yourself a perfect season. They'd be 82-0-0 by the end of it. But would probably will be out in the first round of the playoffs. Oh well, as they say in Toronto... there's always next year.