The Toronto Maple Leafs Suck

I am a hardcore Montreal Canadiens fan which means that I think the Toronto Maple Leafs are an absolute joke. I won't get into the gory details (42 years without a championship) but I am about to snap at this hockey club and their fans.

The NHL season opens tomorrow night with the Leafs and the Canadiens, fittingly, opening up the season. For the last 2 weeks, my blood has been boiling.

Why?

The Toronto Maple Leafs bandwagon is being jumped on hard, especially by the media and the Leaf fans. What's worse is that I hear more and more "experts" saying that the Leafs will make the playoffs and finish BETTER than the Canadiens. Just reading that statement makes me want to puke all over the place.

The Leafs are coming off another season where they missed the playoffs. 4 straight years they have missed the postseason. A reason for this media hype is that the Leafs got tougher by adding a few free agents including big defenseman Francois Beauchemin and Mike Komisarek.

Komisarek has been a Canadien for the last 6-7 years and decided to jump ship to the rival Leafs over the off-season which is another reason for my hatred towards this year's Toronto squad. And from watching Komisarek last year, he is OVERRATED. The guy played like absolute garbage last year and can't skate or shoot. He just uses his body to pulverize people smaller than him and when someone his size steps up to challeng him, here's what happens (Komisarek is in the white jersey):



So now that we're led to believe that this team is tougher, how about putting the puck in the net. Oh wait, they have jack shit for scoring. Recently, they made a trade for young Phil Kessel from Boston, who scored 30+ goals last year. Now this seems good for the Leafs but there's a few problems:

1)He's out until November after undergoing rotator cuff surgery in the summer

2)The only reason he scored that many goals in Boston last year was because he was playing with a bunch of other star players in Boston who could get hiim the puck. Toronto has nobody. Phil Kessel will not score 25 goals this year and will be lucky to get 20.

If you look at their roster, you'll be hard-pressed to find a forward who has a shot at scoring 20 goals this year other than Kessel. I can look at the roster of every other team in the Eastern Conference and pick out 3-4 guys who are accomplished goal scorers. Not the Leafs

So are you convinced this is a playoff team?

Their goaltending situation consists of Vesa Toskala, who is not a top-20 goalie in the NHL. But apparently, they have brought in the goaltending savior in some Swedish goofball named Jonas Gustavsson. He has thrived in the Swedish League, which is fine and good, but has yet to play in the NHL. The caliber of players in the NHL are a little different from the Swedish League. So don't tell me this guy is God, ok TSN?

I would be willing to bet a significant amount of money with anyone from anywhere that this team will miss out on the playoffs. Guaranteed. If not for the Islanders, this team would be riding the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

So get ready, Leafs fans, because tomorrow, the Canadiens are going to steamroll you.

6-1 Montreal.