[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

It's for the best the Leafs lost and not just because I hate them but for fans of other teams and the rest of the playoffs. TSN and HNIC were getting carried away with the Leafs coverage and if they got into the 2nd round the other three series would be treated like footnotes. I mean the Senators got into the 2nd round but they weren't getting mentioned while Sportsdesk was devoting it's first 5 minutes every day to the Leafs.

Same narrative in 1993. Ron MacLean could not hide his excitement for a potential Montreal/Toronto finals.