Leafs – reality vs. myth

Okay, Maple Leaf fans, take a deep breath and consider the following: When your team last won the Stanley Cup, lo these nearly 40 years ago, It Wasn't That Big a Deal.

Take it from someone who lived here then and bled Maple Leaf blue – an affliction that, for numerous reasons, didn't endure past adolescence or morph into blind rooting for modern corporate profit margins.

Fact is, the Leafs' last title means a whole lot more today than it did then. Those 1967 Leafs, the ones feted regularly these days, are mythical figures now. They looked for off-season jobs then.

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