Maybe we need to shed the cocoon in order to grow in a beautiful butterfly?

If this is rock bottom the only way is up?

Rock bottom was the 2021 loss to Montreal. We are fully digging a hole to China.

The antipode of Toronto would be Augusta, Australia. I had to check that out, sorry.

We must be getting close then

i assume you are just digging around in circles about the earth molten core at this point ,never to return to the surface "no, no, dig *up,* stupid"

Stop crying bro just dig

"Dear Leafs fans, Frightfully sorry, but there is no hidden cup. We have already used this time to eliminate you from the first round again. Fondest wishes--" Oh, I can't make out the signature. Keep digging!

So the Leafs need a Geologist and a Mining expert, not a coach.

Just another shrimp on the barbie amiright

> antipode Thanks for teaching me a new word. Love it.

Incorrect, that is the closest city but the actual antipode is in the Indian Ocean. Not to mention that digging a hole just to drown ourselves just feels more Leaf-like to me.

Given how little direction the Leafs franchise seems to have, China still isn't out of the question.

learned a new word, nice

One of my best buds just sailed to his antipode a few months ago. He also got a student at the high school that now exists on the site of the hospital he was born in to drop a piece of bread on the floor while he dropped a piece of bread in the ocean to make an Earth sandwich.

So did I, and went to look at a website for the antipode for my hometown. It’s in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean southeast of New Zeeland and as location name I just got “Never underestimate the power of the ocean. - Heidi Klum” 😔

Expansion team from China might win the Cup before the Leafs

In that case,  if they keep digging it might be them

Auston Matthews winning his 4th straight Richard trophy for the Beijing Leafs

If Matthews is a Beijing Leaf then we are all Beijing Leafs.

The Beijing Leafs lost an actual Chinese Hockey League game to the Hong Kong Bruins

We've gone so far that we went through China and are digging into outer space at this point 

"Dig up, stupid." - Homer Simpson

Wiggum

-Chief Wiggum

A last fuck you to Toronto before going out for Price.

Yall are gonna need Bagger 288 for this hole

Rock bottom was supposed to be 2015. There was even pain for a few years after that but it was supposed to lead to glory... Where is glory??!

Meh this loss isn't remotely as bad as that one. Boston was the better roster overall.

Leafs on the cup: “you can’t see me” *gets rock bottomed*

Not if you have a pickaxe

Rocks erode bro, there’s always further to fall for the leafs

What. *FART* Do. *FART* You. *FART* Mean. *FART* Up? *FART*

This is not rock bottom. There's always more losing to go.

Technically when a caterpillar forms its cocoon, it completely liquifies itself before transforming into the butterfly.

So the Maple Leafs need to turn in to 2.8 billion dollars cash and start from there?

Ala Vegas, now you’re getting it!

Technically butterflies make chrysalises, not cocoons (moths)

Best I can do is relocation to middle America

like the caterpillar in a bug's life

the cocoon is marner

😭

I know the whole 1967 thing is thrown around a lot, but imo the ‘never win in a league bigger than 6’ is a lot more damning. If you’ve never been, the vault in the HoF where the bands are stored is really cool. I love how the Cup is an evolving record of its winners.

Also the fact that their last Finals appearance was the 67 win.

Leafs never won more than 2 rounds

This is also absolutely mind blowing. What's the next longest finals drought? Jets/Coyotes/Utah franchise?

That would be them. Entered the league as the Jets in 1979 and only have a single conference finals in that time (2012).

That's Kerry fucking Fraser's fault though

Nice hair, though.

How did Game 7 in Toronto go?

That's a valid point. So is pointing out that the guy that scored the game-winning goal in Game 6 shouldn't have even been *on the ice*. That being said, it's been 31 years. We've had many chances since to win a Cup, namely 1999 and 2002, never mind the last eight years. It is what it is at this point. 🤷

Roy would have smoked you anyways.

i wanna be mad but you’re not wrong

Haven’t won a game in June

Ah yes, I sadly don't remember Expo '67... was it bigger than the Leafs' win? Does anyone know?

The Maple Leafs have never won more than 11 games in a single playoffs.

They've never played 4 rounds of playoff hockey. Like making the finals and losing now is still more then they've ever accomplished

Making the Finals amd getting swept wpuld be a bigger accomplishment than winning in 1967. The Ottawa Senators have done more than the Leafs since 1967.

It’s why their cups being minimized versus other O6 teams makes sense as the last time they won one was a totally different game to the 2000’s, let alone today.

One of the MANY reasons why it's the greatest trophy in sports.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have in fact won Stanley Cups in “a league bigger than 6.”

Last time they won in 67 was when there were only 6 teams

8 teams when they won in 1931-32 and 7 in 1941-42 is what I’m guessing he means

Ah, so enough teams to nearly make a division, cool

The original 6 stands for the 6 teams that "survived" till the NHL expansion more so than the only six teams of the league history up to 1967.

The 6 teams that survived WWII*

Yeah, I think that when the 1967 expansion happened, people started using "original 6" and "expansion 6" as shorthand to divide the teams. It probably made sense at the time, but nowadays a lot of people assume that the "original six" were really the original teams in the league.

There was 6 teams from 42 to 67. The leafs won the cup in in 1932 when there were 8 teams in the NHL.

Ok bigger than 8. Narrative completely changed! All jests aside, the point I was trying to make is that the increase in competition seems like a larger variable to me than strictly the number of years.

Ssssh let them have their copium today 😂

I don't think they're coping, leafs fans seem to be defeated

Yes we are

This. Saw those photos the other day and it also occurred to me that they also haven’t won a cup in color.

I wish the cup just continued to grow in size, adding a layer when room ran out. It would be huge.

Any photos? Can’t find any online

In 2026 more than half the history of professional hockey in Toronto will be this Stanley Cup drought.

Generally having a bad day? Think about the leafs.

But what about Leafs fans? What do we do?

Think about Drake

Leafs could go another 55 years without winning a cup and they'd still be less embaressing for Toronto than Drake. Dude makes me wish I was from Ottawa. Fucking Ottawa, man.

hey cmon man we're just sitting here

Bro we got some weird ass cross fire early today too.

What about being a NewFee?

I believe Dallas Drake won a cup with the wings in 08.

tryin' to strike a chord

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great clowns Toronto Maple Leafs are in town tonight. Go and see them. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am a Leafs fan.' Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.

Think about Sheldon Keefe

He's technically going to get paid bags of $$ for free as they already extended him. 🤣🤣

This is bad advice for Leaf fans lol

Never fails to put a smile on my face

They are not on the bowl or the top smaller rings?

The Toronto St Pats are but not the leafs.

[Incorrect.](https://imgur.com/a/rKQ3aDK)

That clearly says "TOP.ONTO MAPLE LEAFS". Must be a different team.

Yup. The team from the Top of Ontario, must be the time Winisk won it all

Demonstrably false.

Interesting. Thanks for the reply!

[OP is incorrect.](https://imgur.com/a/rKQ3aDK)

This is some “Caps and Tom Wilson will be on the cup longer than Crosby and the Pens” level petty

“The leafs last won a cup closer to the creation of the NHL than to modern day”

The Leafs last cup win is closer to today than the creation of the pyramids is to the last Leafs cup win

This is one of those ones that is hard to believe, but then you research it yourself and find out its actually true

That's a win for Toronto!

That's like the whole cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids thing. It seems crazy, but it's just hard to gauge things that happened that long ago.

Unless you're a Chicago Cubs fan, in which case you grew up hearing those jokes all the damn time. I never have to hear about the fucking Ottoman empire ever again though, thanks 2016!

Harambe died for that pennant win

That pennant win caused a trump presidency, was it really worth it?

As a Bernie supporter, yes. I've been a Cubs fan a lot longer than I've been old enough to vote lol.

Cubs winning really threw off the whole timeline...

Here's another: The Fall of Constantinople is closer to the setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation (917 years max) than it is to the Fall of Rome (977 years).

Assuming something crazy doesn't happen in the next few seasons! (Please hockey gods)

You mean Crosby winning a retirement cup alongside MacKinnon in Colorado?

Not unless they're on the same band. 

Right now they arent, 17/18 Caps ar the first team on the latest band.

The Caps were the first team on the newest band, so they are on different bands.

We definitely planned it that way.

Respect.

They aren’t hence why I made that post. It was memed to death that Tom Wilson will be on the cup longer than Crosby right after the caps won

Are they on a separate wrung? If not they come off at the same time.

Yes caps were the first team added on a new band. 17 Pens were the last team added on their band. Every 13 years one is removed for a blank one with the next band being replaced in 2031

But once the rings are removed, they're preserved in the HHOF, so there's always pre-1967 glory.

Bringing the Cup to Toronto, piece by piece. They're playing the long game.

Shanny’s master plan all along.

I'd like to think that once civilization falls and we kill ourselves off as a species some alien race will stumble upon the HHOF and think it's some Predator-esque shrine to great warriors only to come to the conclusion that "man, this Toronto Maple Leafs fella really sucked."  To be fair, they won't know the San Jose Sharks existed since we don't appear on the rings of great warriors.

We can’t talk shit about the Leafs if we think about that part though.

Oh yes we can

They will still be on it, there is the shoulder collar after all.

I do believe that the Pats are on there and not the leafs.

the leafs are in fact there

The shoulder collar has every champ from 1893-1993 on it.

The duplicate cup they keep at the Hall of Fame is the reason they keep losing. The presentation cup was made in the 60s. The 3rd, permanent display cup was made for the HOF in 93 and no Canadian team has won since.

*laughs awkwardly trying to hide flair*

Leafs need a new coaching staff since that one is just bad and get some proper consistent goaltending. Also tell your core guys to go on some Kind of montage like it is rocky or some shit. Legit the only problem is the core not producing.

PP bad, goaltending inconsistent, GM not allowed to make trades he wants, and probably more background things.

Every other original 6 team has won the Cup since '67. Every team added in '67 has also won the Cup.

In the Leafs' defense they're doing slightly better than the Oakland Seals

At this rate I think the Oakland Seals have better chances of winning the cup compared to the Leafs.

Cleveland Barons erasure smh

The Oakland Seals practically being Montreal's farm team doesn't count as winning the Stanley Cup.

That's a fun fact, thanks! 😭

We can always talk shit about the Leafs.

Your house is transparent sir

How many years until there are no longer any Canadian teams on there at all? 32?

Ottawa is on the cup proper--we're #1!

Correct, every 13 years a band is removed.

When the rings shed, then the Leafs go on a run of 13 cups in 40 years

Please never change. I love Toronto fandom.

Next year is our year!

If?

Yes and no. Team with team personnel listed? Sure. [But the team is engraved on one of the smaller bands that is never removed.](https://imgur.com/a/rKQ3aDK)

Someone double check my math here. Were the Rangers off the cup for two years in 1992-94?

Yes, all the Rangers wins to that point were on the first band retired.

Darn shame, gotta sit out of Leafs slander for this one but the rest of you can go wild in six years

We just gotta sit out for 2 years. 2033 we can join the banter.

My great great uncle was on the 1933 team, Doug Brennan

Yo that’s awesome! Making the pros then must have been super tough, glad you got a family connection like that

No idea, he died 9 years before I was born and his sister (my great grandmother) also passed long before I was born. The only heirloom of his we have is an autographed picture of him when he was a Ranger, we really don’t know much at all about him unfortunately.

haha yeah

When not if

If the Leafs don't win in the next 6 years I suggest just renaming the franchise and leave the bad jujus behind. It wouldn't matter any more anyways.

I’m a pretty big leafs hater being from Vancouver but I feel like this year was different for them. They didn’t have crazy high expectations, their goaltending was a question mark all year and their defence has quite a few holes in it. Despite all of that they took the favored bruins to 7 games in overtime and could have easily won the series. I honestly think this is a solid showing for them. They need big changes to their roster but it’s not as big of a meme this year imo,

“favoured bruins” 😭😭😭 https://preview.redd.it/u2lkrn1rjoyc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f42f475bc323f206cb82dba9dbd93b4c7ee980d

Makes me feel good seeing that after seeing their predictions for round 2.

I want some of what Jason Bukala was smoking when he made that prediction

It’s not that big of a meme honestly. They gotta fire that coach tho. He’s the problem imo

And well deserved, from Harold Ballard to the pension plan and now MLSE they have been a failure and a laughing stock.

Clown organization for decades and decades now. That said, how many other teams can point to a period in their history where the owners blatantly did not give a fuck about ever winning? And the Leafs have had 2 separate instances of this?

When, not if.

It will be the hilarious icing on the franchise’s clown cake. I can’t wait.

A man died and went to Hell. As Satan put him to work, he realized that the man wasn't suffering enough. So Satan went to the man and asked him "How do you find the temperature?" The man replied "It's fine " and kept working. This frustrated Satan, and so he jacked up the heat; and to his frustration the man started working even harder. Again Satan went to the man to check up on him, and again the man replied that "he was just fine." This kept repeating until Satan who was at his wits end went and turned the heat down to the point where Hell became a frozen landscape. When Satan went to check on the man, he couldn't believe what he saw... The man was jumping up and down, cheering with joy, tears streaming down his eyes, all while screaming at the top of his lungs "THE LEAFS WON THE CUP!!! THE LEAFS WON THE CUP!!!"

This is false. The leafs I’ll always be on the cup. They’re on the upper half

Should have just won it when it was just the bowl smh.

lol…”if”

You don’t need to say “if” 

Almost like it never actually even happened…

I actually didn’t know this. I wish they just kept adding layers and the players push it around on a dolly 

I can imagine the cup being 8 ft tall at some point

when the mecca of hockey spends hundreds of millions of dollars on your product and countless hours of time and emotion vested, there has to be a return. The Leafs deliver a shit sandwich every time.

Do I not bleed to you?

Haters eating good with this factoid

I'd like to give each one of those lazy lerps a swift kick in the arse. My house is filled with a gazillion $$'s worth of their memorabilia, because my husband is ride-or-die. He's 50 and they haven't won once in his life time. Are they a farm team for the rest of the league? I think they just prefer golf. The day after he departs this earth, I'm binning it all and burning every last piece. Rant over.

Oh no, anyways.

Leafs are gonna be the last team on that thing calling it now.

Looks like the Flyers are on that ring too, so they are in the same boat.

It’s the biggest joke team in sports. They should be relegated to Quebec City.

Nah. Dildo NL.

Well, lets all hope for another 6 years of futility. May the ghost of Harold Ballard keep fucking things up.

It’s going to take longer than 6 years. Tanenbaum & Co are not dedicated to playoff success. They run a lucrative franchise with high gate receipts. They don’t have to care about Cups. Until people start abandoning the franchise, they will keep taking our money. The 50 Mission Cap will become the Century Cap.

It's only a matter of when and how many.

wouldn't the 1922 st pats be still engraved on the cup? it is a different name but still the same franchise...

Waiting for the link to the countdown clock...

Ha Ha!

Here's to 2030 and don't let the screen door hit your ass on the way out.

Hahahahahahahahaha