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Why The Leafs Still Suck: And How They Can Be Fixed
Why The Leafs Still Suck: And How They Can Be Fixed
Why The Leafs Still Suck: And How They Can Be Fixed
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Why The Leafs Still Suck: And How They Can Be Fixed

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Every year since 1968, Leaf fans hope that the new season will be the one that breaks the Stanley Cup drought. Sadly, those hopes are usually dashed mid-season. In the biggest hockey market in North America, with such a huge and loyal fan base, how has the team missed it for so long?

It’s the question that every Leafs fan asks (and has been afraid to have answered). Now updated to include both the disastrous 2009–10 season and the 2010–11 season, Al Strachan covers what’s gone wrong and why. With behind-the-scenes access and forty years of fascinating Leafs personalities and stories, Al discusses

  • How the downfall started and how Harold Ballard perpetuated it
  • Why fans were once again ill-served in the battle for club ownership after Ballard’s death
  • The three wasted first-round draft picks in one season
  • Why the Leafs passed on Wayne Gretzky
  • How the Phil Kessel trade will impact the team for years to come
  • Why Brian Burke may not be the saviour Leafs fans are hoping for
  • And most important, what can be done—how other teams have had success and thrived in the salary-cap era

For fans who love the Leafs (and those who love to hate them), Why the Leafs Still Suck is a revealing and sometimes shocking inside look at professional hockey.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateOct 18, 2011
ISBN9781443408479
Why The Leafs Still Suck: And How They Can Be Fixed
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Al Strachan

AL STRACHAN is the author of I’m Not Making This Up and Go to the Net, and the co-author of Don Cherry’s Hockey Stories and Stuff. He has appeared regularly on Hockey Night in Canada, Sirius Radio and FoxSports.com, and he has been writing about the NHL for more than thirty-five years.

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    I expected a lot more from this book. Not sure why. I am a pretty big Leafs fan, at least I consider myself to be. I know next to nothing about the history of the Maple Leafs. This book did fill me in on a lot that I did not know however, the last 100 pages or so were a disappointment. I do appreciate the stats and what not - but really had no interest in it.

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