Leafs fans and the media need to learn to actually LOVE the Leafs and stop with the unreasonable expectations that they must win the cup every year. When they have a good season, like this year, the expectations are even worse. I don’t feel sorry for Leafs fans. I feel sorry for the players that have to deal with your bi-polar “we love you!” / “we hate you” mood swings.

I don't hate you. I don't know that I really hate any team. I dislike when the Caps (my team) plays the Pens, because there's just so much rivalry and it often gets chippy. But these days the Pens are mostly harmless, so it's hard for me to hate them. I do take a certain satisfaction in seeing the Pens lose, along with the Flyers, the Bruins, the Rangers, and possibly a few others, but I can't muster enough energy to hate them. I have nothing against the Leafs. I was very tired of hearing the Habs fans complaining during the first round series. Many vocal Habs fans seem to think the puck is destined to go into the net every time the Habs enter the offensive zone, and any failure of that to happen is obviously a failure in refereeing. I feel like the Caps did playoff hockey fans everywhere (including Habs fans) a favor by eliminating the Habs early. Nothing against the team though, I thought they mostly played well.

Nah, not really "hate" per se. I reserve that for More schadenfreude, I'd say. My bandwagon team is always the team that has been the longest without a Cup and isnt the Leafs. edit: Caps fan

I don't know what is worse, a team that can't make the playoffs or a team that consistently good every year but can't get pass round 2.

Like Ted Lasso said, it's the hope that kills.

It's stupid but I'm still sore about the Habs beating the The Great One on the Kings in '93.

Sens Fan. Im mostly mad at you. *As a fanbase. not as an individual, important distinction* Im mad because despite all the shit-talk, the ego, the pride. That TML still have a far worse playoff record then literally everyone else in the division. In the post Lockout era. Literally every team in the division has made it to at the very least, the Conference Finals, Everyone except Buffalo made it to the Finals too. Toronto has 2 series wins, Buffalo has 4. All of the others have made MULTIPLE Conference finals, Championship finals, and there's 5 or 6 cups in the division with the Florida teams. Im mad that year after year, the rest of us have to listen to the delusional chest thumping "this year feels different". LOL Im mad that after my team lost to you again, that you didnt go out and make it count. Leafs are 5-0 against the Sens, and 0-5 in the next round after eliminating them. The curse is mutual. I just want the noise to stop. I think the pendulum is about to swing. Toronto's time feels like its done, Montreal and Ottawa both made it to the playoffs this year. I think they're going to come in, as Toronto and Boston are going out, and its been a long time coming.

Feel sorry for the team that consistently has its own fans throw thier jerseys on the ice? No. Fuck em. Hahahaha. Suck on it, hosers. Tavares can go cry about in in his Maple Leaf PJs

The noise is always going to be there. That's just how the media/fanbase is. I think you guys would've had a better chance at beating FLA. You guys work at much harder than we do. Lol

Very true. But I think your team will be doing some big changes this off season. So hopefully for the better.

As a Red Sox fan pre-2004, I completely sympathize. As a Bruins fan, the suffering warms my cold heart.

I won't hold an honest answer against you. LOL