Article:Maple Leaf Hell

Oh boy. Its a disaster 6 games in. Only if Brian Burke with his super thick cranium could have seen this when he decided. He's obnoxious and trying to build a team that is meant for vintage-era hockey.

Leafland is a mess, Ron Wilson is not a good coach. Brian Burke is not a good GM. Both are so-so at best. Put those two into the smoldering cauldron of leaf mediocrity and you have a poor man's porridge fit for the sewer. This is not going to get any better anytime soon.

Vesa is a good goalie and he needs to get out of Toronto to save his career. Almost any player that comes to the bluehole gets their energy sucked dry and turn into real ugly-looking hockey players. The pressure cooker of Leafland is too much. Most players wilt and can't handle the pressure, which leads to unbelievably stupid decisions on the ice, that peewee kids no better not to do.

Sometimes I wonder, are the players really that bad, even those who won a cup elsewhere or is their a negative, ghostly pall on those who come to this hockey-mad city to play for the beloved, damned and cursed blue and white.

Regardless, the facts are no one has ever lived upto the hype here ever as far back as I can recall. Glimpses, flashes of hope only to be dashed every spring and now every winter. Usually by december I know how good or bad the leafs are over the last 8 years. The wool is off and I'm aware, awake, alive but paralyzed at what we are witnessing. This could easily be a disasterous slide. The schedule looks ugly and the next win I foresee for them is...ah forget it. I don't think they win a game till november. I foresee 0-20-1. Thats my prognostication based on this disastrous product.

Unfortunately, this is so bad, you can't fire Burke because the plan is so early. You almost have to watch him build a loser, a few years removed to prove that he is god awful as well and then fire him. The politics mixed with the horrific on ice product, oh my lord, this by far the worst sports team to watch, follow and loosely observe from a far. Its worse than the Tampa before they made their run in '08. Its worst than the Cubs futility of a century, its more painful than redsox nation because at least you had the Bruins winning, the Celtics just annihilating and lately the Pats.

Toronto had nothing. 2 world series that seem so far away, I almost think the blue jays could fold in this town.

Toronto The Loser Town. 4 million collective losers, with 3 major sports teams and nothing really to show for. I don't know where I'd rather be, but right now its pain mused as embarassment masked as indifference.

The only saving grace and thank the Good Lord for pigskin.I have an out and I'm a fan of the gridiron regardless of who's playing. I can watch any game be it NFL or college.

Oh my Lord, This Town was meant for sports losers.