The Toronto Maple Leafs are not this bad.

Now, they’re not good right now either, but the true talent of the group is much better than their play to date. I’ve heard and seen the chatter about the potential for them to miss playoffs, and certainly with this start and some bad injury luck, that outcome is not out of the question. But if they missed, they’d be among the more talented groups to do so in the past decade.

After giving up 15 goals over their past three games, and in the aftermath of a flood of articles about their shortcomings — a wave which I contributed to — it’s time to assess which problems are legitimate.

This exercise is necessary for fans, as the opposite of the expression “winning cures everything” also holds true. A lot of blame gets tossed about when you lose, and i

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