Why the Toronto Maple Leafs have become the most helpless franchise in sports

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Nobody has mastered mediocrity like the Leafs,

Another year full of promise ending in devastation: such is the legacy of the Toronto Maple Leafs. On Sunday evening the Leafs laid their final egg of the 2024-25 season in front of a sold out Toronto crowd as they fell 6-1 to the Florida Panthers, ending their season in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Crashing out might be par for the course for the Maple Leafs...